{"id":2313,"date":"2012-02-06T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T03:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T03:24:28","slug":"window-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Window dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"

They are finished! This week’s project was to finish making some blinds for one of the rooms. After calculating the material required and sitting on it for a few days (not literally), then nervously cutting the material, having to re-learn how to use the sewing machine etc. , I finally pushed the procrastination to the side and started the technical side of the project.<\/p>\n

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It has to be said that it has been a very long time since I have sewn anything. The last thing would have been a soft toy about 4.5 years ago<\/a>. This probably wasn’t helped by the sewing machine being in storage for about a year on its way home, and then it has been sitting in the cupboard here for the last 10 months. So first thing was working out how to thread a bobbin and then the machine. But we got there in the end! Thank you little sewing machine!<\/p>\n

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And the sewing of the blinds, well they went pretty well with not too many errors on the way (could be a little bit straighter here and there). Hardest part was matching the material where it needed to join in two places and this was not an easy task with quite a number of fish needing to be matched up. So for the next lot of blinds, think I might try already lined and non patterned. One would have thought it was best to start with this first. Nothing like doing things around the wrong way. <\/p>\n

Once I got going it was quite fun. And then I had Mike pretty much do the end bit of attaching them to the wood and hanging them up (not to mention a few other bits of advice here and there throughout the project – mainly checking my maths). <\/p>\n

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