Back to sewing

[wiseheart]

I've laid the baby book aside for a bit (it's my horrible custom to delay the binding part as long as possible; I hate doing it) and picked up the felt songbook again. The individual pages are all done, thank goodness, so I started sewing together the corresponding pages. Three out of five double pages are done, two more to go. Of course, these three were the "easy ones": it's an absolute misery to stitch through five to seven layers, but at least it's simple blanket stich.

The front and back covers (that need to be stitched to the first and last page, respectively) will be much more complicated. And then comes the binding that I still dread. Fortunately, in the bunch of useless junk Pinterest likes to send me, in the hope that I'd find it interesting (including my own pins that are suggested to me regularly, hehe!) there were a few suggesting ways to bind felt books. Perhaps one of those will work. *fingers crossed*

Other than that, Mum had a visit from the physiotherapist, the exterminator was here to do his job like every 4th month, I made fried fish with parsley potatoes for lunch and took a two-hour nap when I was completely floored. Alas, the episodes of The Repair Shop have run out, so we're watching Money for Nothing instead. That's enjoyable, too, even though I sometimes find that the items looked better in their original, battered shape than after the so-called "reimagined" version. But I'm strange that way.

Comments

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Weathered and aged antiques have their own beauty; it’s like they show the stories of their experiences.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

I gave up on Money For Nothing, because some of the designers simply broke stuff apart and used the wood etc. to make something completely new. I prefer to see makeovers where the item is still there, underneath, when they've finished.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the objects on Money for Nothing! and, as Richard Osman (writer and game-show host) pointed out to one of the presenters, after a few shows you look at almost anything and think 'I bet they turn it into a light fitting'!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

Never seem Money for Nothing. But I did watch some clips about renovating on YT, where the outcome after the renovation was not what I had expected- objects looked like new and were useable but had lost their character!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. Still, it's one of the very few shows that are worth watching; sometimes I even get ideas for my own crafts. In the rare cases that they work with anything smaller than a cupboard, that is. *g*

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Haha, very true! They do make some hair-raisingly impractical things; I wonder how they manage to sell all that crap.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I am in complete agreement with you.