I have a new found appreciation for people who can sew.
Sewing has never been an interest of mine and with so little that needs to be sewn I have never had the opportunity to give it a try.
That all changed recently when I needed to sew a couple of patches onto a shirt of mine.
Having no real idea of how to actually do it other than knowing that you thread the needle and go up and down I did what anyone in today’s society would do.
I looked it up on Youtube.
I learned the basics of sewing through the Youtube video and then I was off but it was certainly not without its hardships.
I tied the thread to the needle and pulled a long piece of thread off the spool.
After a couple minutes of sewing I discovered that I was probably going to be short on my thread so I loosened all of the stitches one at a time and pulled them all tight to give myself more thread.
The thread also kept tangling up and knotting making it either really hard to pull through or causing a break in the thread.
What a pain.
Finally, after sewing around the patch twice (because the first time I made the stitches really far apart because I wanted to get it held down and I also was once again was afraid of being short on thread) I was finished, some three and a half hours later and this patch was not very large.
The next day I worked on patch two.
Having already done the first one I knew what to expect and was a little more efficient the second time around but it still took me approximately two hours.
I learned a number of things while sewing on those two patches, including how big of a pain it is to sew while simultaneously making sure that you thread does not become knotted, how important a thimble is when working with a needle and how hard it really is.
A lot of times you see something that looks fairly basic, and really if you looked at my sewn on patches they do look really basic, and you just assume that it is easy to do.
I was guilty of that but I have to admit having had the opportunity to try it myself it is far less easy than I thought and expected.
So credit goes out to all the people who sew because wow, it is really not easy work.
