Well the theory last weekend was to get a big chunk of work done on the Doublestar kite - all went well on Saturday when I got stuck into hemming, I now have only 23 pieces out of 140 left to hem,which means I managed to hem 37 pieces this time.  Sunday was set aside for assembly on the theory that assembly would need two people (twice the brain power to try and work out how to do it!), whereas hemming I can finish in the evening on my own.

Whilst doing the little bit of assembly we had already achieved, I had discovered the hard way that the sewing machine wasn’t keen on the double sided tape we had used to hold everything together until sewing time.   I seem to remember a bit of a metallic crunch and since then things haven’t quite been right with the machine - missed stitches, tangles etc.  I spent hours on Sunday fighting to get the thing to sew the bit we had finally worked out how to tape (should have written notes on what we did the first time!) - managing to sew three out of five pieces before giving up and asking for assistance to find out what was wrong with the machine. 

Thats where things took a turn for the worst and all work on the kite was temporarily halted.  A new sewing machine was ordered on the internet!

….and as if by magic - my new machine turned up today, we’ve been playing about with it tonight (although we are both a bit unsure about Stephen playing with it too much given what happened when he touched the last one!).  I think I have decided that the automatic needle threader gadget is probably slower than actually threading by hand, but otherwise its looking good, and work will resume shortly!

Project 52 photo - a broken sewing machine!

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