(Almost) Good As New

Our duvet cover had a huge, gaping rip right at the seams. Hubs said, buy a new one, but the sentimental side of me couldn't bear to throw it away. After all, I've had it for at least 6 or 7 years.

I am not a sewer. In fact, I couldn't even remember the last time I sewed something. But yesterday, I scrambled up the one needle and the one spool of black thread we have in the house and started sewing. I had a rip to fix!

Oh dear, I was horrible. I had trouble sewing in a straight line!

I started with simple single stitches, then hubs showed me his "double-whip-stitch" technique of looping back to make it more sturdy. Then I realized that I was going to run out of thread so I started doing single stitches again. Finally at the end, with some thread leftover, I went backwards and "double-whip-stitched" until I finished the thread.

It was a one big, hot mess.

But, at the end, the huge, gaping rip is gone. And when I flip the duvet right-side out, the imperfect handiwork is completely hidden. Crisis averted.

I fixed something! I felt so accomplished!

Now I can get a couple more years out of my beloved duvet.

My next project: make my own skirts and dresses!