Friday, my first day of real winter vacation (and in some ways my last day– much reading for my thesis and next semester already calls), I spent sewing.  There was a very small present for a friend in Canada (not that one, the other one), a few letters, and a recipe card.  I’m tempted to start the holiday ornaments from Alica Paulson (via PosieGetsCozy) but am also unsure how much sewing I want/have time to do.

It felt so good to be crafting again, I always forget how much I miss it until I get to break out the scissors, fabric, glue, and stamps again.  The sewing was really, really easy– just a small fabric bag to hold some granola.  I’m such a terrible seamstress though, that I find sewing a little stressful.  This is a shame, since I want to be good at it.  I’m just seriously not.  I finally realized that it is important to find the “strait of grain” and that having a bobbin winder (so cool!) is way better than doing it myself, by hand.

I use my mom’s old sewing machine (that weighs like 30 lbs. and is made out of metal)– it still works great but I dropped it down the stairs once (during a move, long story) and broke the bobbin winder.  That means, every d*mn time I wanted to sew something I’d have to wind, by hand, the bobbin… yeah, that was a deterrent.

Anyway, it felt great and I hope team Canada likes their granola and little bag for oats.