Finish Itself

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."
– Isak Dinesen

8:00 last night I was certainly wishing that this rug WOULD finish itself!

I was sewing my covered cording and had about 5 feet finished when the machine

jammed up.  Really, this was a blessing in disguise, because when I took the

cording out I could see that the bottom thread was all wadded up.

I “googled” the problem, adjusted the tension, ripped out about 3 feet of seam

and then got back to it. We’re talking 21 feet of covered cording to make.

Let me just say that I give the phrase “cussing like a sailor” a whole new

meaning when I sew!

1/2 a sleeve of Girl Scout cookies later, (yes people, that

is stress eating at it’s finest!) I had the cording finished.

I’m in the clear……

…..or am I?

Zig-zagging around such a heavy rug was a challenge….

this is one heavy rug!  Even though I was working at the

dining room table, so I’d have more room to distribute the

weight of the rug, it was still frustrating!

However, I persevered and I’m finished with the machine sewing…

now on to the hand-sewing!

Will I have it finished in time to take to Lenexa tomorrow morning?

We’ll see!