For my graduation I got a very generous present, a brand spanking new sewing machine. For my first ever sewing project I naively decided to make curtains for my two living room windows. Unknown to me this was a much harder job than I first anticipated....
I live in an old Victorian property and my windows are 3m in height but unfortunately the width of my living room is not much bigger. Overall I needed 15m of fabric plus 15m of lining and trying to lay this amount of fabric out flat to cut straight was a nightmare. On top of this I chose to make them from 100% silk by James Brindley which was an eye watering ££ a meter meaning I broke out in a nervous sweat with every cut of my scissors. Once the stress of cutting the fabric was out of the way I moved on to arguing with my stupidly fancy machine ( if only i had read the manual before starting). Rookie mistake!!
Aside for the volume of fabric I was dealing with in such a small space and bullishly thinking I didn't need to read the instructions for my sewing machine the curtain making continued with only a few minor hiccups.
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