Fun With Serger Feet

My class proposals for Sew Expo have been submitted. I should know something by the end of August. They will be offering four-hour and all-day classes next year, which is wonderful. The 2-1/2 hour time slots aren’t long enough, especially when half the students in class need individual help. I also need to work on paring down some of my handouts, because I do tend to pack a lot into them.

Sarah and I were the only ones who thought we had sewing yesterday. (Yes, we knew it was a holiday but we like the Thursday get-togethers.) Both of us went to the community center and realized no one else was there. She was already halfway to my house at that point so she delivered some lettuce starts and summer savory plants to me. We walked around the herb garden and the big garden and she showed me some bags she had made for market. Sarah is very clever at repurposing things and some of her bags were made from thrift store finds.

After Sarah left, I finished re-covering my sleeve board with new covers. The cording foot on my serger worked splendidly:

And now the sleeve board has nice new covers:

I spent the rest of the afternoon reprinting patterns and taping them together. I discovered that even though I set the Brother laser printer to print at 106%—in order to get the one-inch calibration box on the pattern to print at the correct size—the printer was not resizing the rest of the pattern proportionally. The measurements for the actual pattern pieces were still off. I printed everything on the Epson inkjet printer on the husband’s computer and the patterns came out perfect at 100%. Note to self.

I’m not sure what I will work on next. I did buy the hardware for the Haralson bags, so I ought to finish them. At least now I know everything should be the correct size.

The garden has reached the point where it doesn’t need a lot of work. I plan to go out early this morning and weed the potatoes. We got a round bale of hemp waste from our farmer friend who is growing hemp now. I’m trying that for mulch instead of straw. I’ve already put some down around the potatoes and it seems to be working well. And after all the rain we’ve had, I’ll have to cut the grass.

I’m getting a bit weary of the hyperbole about the weather. Every headline here is screaming about the “deadly heat wave” that is coming next week. It will be in the mid-90s for a couple of days. Hello? It’s summer. A few years ago, we had 90+ heat for most of the month of July. We’ve had years where the heat started in June. This June was cool and rainy, which is typical for Montana. If we were getting a 90-degree heat wave in March, I might be concerned.