Feeling green?

September 8, 2010 by Filed Under: daily life

Yesterday, I let my baby paint with watercolors at the homeschool table. Susan says I should never do that.

Susan may be right.

green hair

It’s a good things she’s washable.

Today felt like I was pulled in 49 different directions. Emeline wanted to make a new monster to enter in the fair. I was talking her through it and rethreading the sewing machine while doing lessons with Milo. Why is it that I spend more time working on my machine, threading, untangling threading mishaps and just basically bad-mouthing my machine than I do actual sewing? Is it supposed to be that way? I feel like I’m missing out on some kind of special sewing machine bond that will make me love my machine instead of regarding it with suspicion. Will it actually sew an entire seam without clogging up this time?

It makes me anxious and frustrated. I end up yelling at everyone over everything.

Right now I’m looking at a pile of blankets, clothes and a cardboard box piled on the table behind the love seat. When/how did that get there? Excuse me while I interrogate an older girl.

I know it’s someone’s fault.

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13 Comments
  • http://cmnlrzc.blogspot.com momof5

    You sound just like me with the sewing machine! I would love to sew all kinds of stuff, but everytime I get my machine out, I just end up a nervous wreck, have a cussing fit, and take it out on everyone…so I never even try anymore. I feel your pain.

  • http://afamiliarpath.com/ Melissa Stover

    oh that's good to know. i thought it was just me.

  • Molly

    I'm scared of sewing machines! I took a home ec. class in middle school and it was horrendous. I made some kind of monkey pillow thingy that I think even the teacher was embarrassed to see. Trust me when I say it was UGLY! Anyhow, I just couldn't master the whole threading/bobbin step. I used to just stare at it, willing it to thread itself! So it's officially scarred me for life and I'm frightened to buy one of my own. I can understand your frustration though, at least you're trying to accomplish sewing, lol! I think we moms (particulary homeschooling ones) all have that one activity/project that we *want* to do but when we try, it all goes awry. It's just so wrong, isn't it?

  • http://afamiliarpath.com/ Melissa Stover

    i'm a competent seamstress. i passed home ec, and i've made a few things

    since then. however, i'm bad at following patterns. i prefer to make up my

    own. which usually doesn't turn out as well as it seems it will in my mind.

  • http://bensrib.blogspot.com Bensrib

    I have the same problem with my sewing machine. I've always wondered what brand and how much you have to spend to get a machine you love. If you find out, let me know.

  • http://www.kellylangnersauer.com/ Kelly Langner Sauer

    May I just say, I am loving your number exaggerations this week. I know you're tired and things are crazy, but you are cracking me up. That sense of humor is a good thing – hang onto it. I need your example. ;-)

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  • Sheila

    I don't know how much you have sewn, but what I found is that a lot of frustrating issues with sewing machines are caused by the thread you use, the tension settings you have, and your needle. I used to think that the cheapest thread I could get at Wal-Mart was fine. It wasn't. I don't buy really expensive stuff, but I do use better stuff. Change your needle often. Once you have good thread and a new needle, work with your tension settings a little and see if you don't have more success. I used to think my troubles were caused by my cheap machine, but once I did the things I just mentioned, I seldom ever had trouble any more. And then my MIL gifted me with a Huskvarnia machine that she had bought for herself and never used and I'm in heaven! :)

  • http://afamiliarpath.com/ Melissa Stover

    thanks for the tips!

  • edie

    i said that about the two crappy machines i owned before i got my viking. i used my yard sale money to buy a viking on ebay. it's like buttah. and i do mean that i love it like it's part of the family.
    i never curse at it. except that one time i broke forty eleven needles. but i think that was all my fault.
    but mystery of all mystery is that lyndsey from pleated poppy, who sews her little fingers to the bone, doesn't use an expensive machine. go figure.
    love ya,
    edie

  • http://afamiliarpath.com/ Melissa Stover

    i think part of the magic is the magician who uses it.

  • http://twitter.com/JendisJournal Jendi

    Oh, the dreaded sewing machine clogs…moan.
    I don't know about a bond, but I do know that the shorter the time period till the deadline – the more the machine jams.

  • Saramincy

    I love the green hair!!!!!!!!!!! :)