KIMBERLY R LAYER
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Operation Spread the Warmth
In January of 2020 I had finally decided to face a challenge that I had been avoiding for years – I was going to learn to use the sewing machine! I had tried in earnest once before, ten years earlier when I was first married. It seemed very “wifely” an activity, so I set my mind to it. I cut out a pattern for a 1950s housewife style dress, and I picked a gorgeous fabric: whimsical yellow daisies on a white background which matched our kitchen curtains perfectly. My husband threaded the machine and the bobbins for me and he was off to work. Hours later of tangled thread and loose bobbins, online tutorials and tears I was left with the worlds most unflattering… shirt? It was too large to be a crop top, but too shapeless to be a tent. Don’t get me wrong – I wore it everywhere and with pride! But I packed the machine away to its new residence, the dark hovel under the window sill.
By KIMBERLY R LAYER3 years ago in Humans