Day 13 prompt: The most challenging thing about sewing. What would you say is (or has been) your greatest challenge? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this one for sure!

Hip hip hooray for Saturday!!! We made it through another week and now it’s time for you to share your lovely creations. What’s everyone been working on this week? Any new projects or progress on old projects? Let’s see it and celebrate together. Y’all already know what I’ve been busy doing this week… these daily videos have been a lot of fun to create but also a challenge on top of a busy schedule. I will let you sewing friends in on a little secret, after all I consider us a little stitched together family here. My hubby and I travel a lot for a ministry and we are in Kansas City this weekend SOOOOO I had to pre-record today and tomorrow’s videos. Shhhhh-it’s our little secret. Also, I left in a blooper on today’s video. Here’s a hint: I DO NOT recommend cutting fabric with kitchen shears 🤪 Alright, I hope you all have a beautiful weekend and don’t forget to share a win (or a challenge) here so that we can encourage each other.

Ha! I finished my first ever walker tote! I'm amazed at how many of the same skills from Beginning Sewing were used in this project, too. I don't have a walker around here, so I modeled it off of a weaving loom. 🤣 To keep the tote from slipping off of a walker, there are Velcro strips sewn into the back. Sewing on Velcro was one of the last steps, and that's where it all went wrong. On the first (of 4 pieces) Velcro strip, the bobbin ran out. 🥴 I stopped. Wound a new bobbin. Put the thread on the knobashuski wrong, so the bobbin had all these loose places. Unwound all that thread. Re-wound the bobbin again correctly. Threaded the machine, a Singer Heavy Duty 4452. I think it is Sewing Mastery on YouTube that says this model of machine has something-something with the tension discs, so on threading step #3, floss the thread so it gets in there between the tension discs well. That made the thread super tight in there, and it was difficult to pull through. No. Redid that. Got the machine all working again. Back to the Velcro. Started sewing, and then the thread broke. O_O I think it was the Velcro, and not my threading. ???? Because I tried sewing on a scrap, and everything went fine. In the picture, you can see where the thread broke, and I started over again. But then, once I started sewing on the Velcro, look at the stitching! I'm almost embarrassed to donate this walker tote. The Velcro looks so horrible. Besides that, the thread on the back side was bird nesting. I redid the bobbin and the threading yet again !!!!! to see if that stopped the bird nesting, but no. It was a disaster. There has to be some technique that I don't know for sewing on Velcro. Eventually I got all 4 Velcro strips on. In hindsight, it might not have been the bobbin that sent a successful project into the 'sewist wears the dunce cap' realm. I was blasting Beethoven's 5th symphony while sewing. That might be the problem. 🤣 Hopefully, nobody will see the Velcro because it is on the back, and the rest of the walker tote turned out cute. Except for the Velcro, it went easily, and I recommend the project. Velcro and I are no longer on speaking terms.