Kangaroo Pouches and Pooches
[add on 16.02.2020
Since the delivery of those pouches, I received a special request for 20 night pouches. 5 are now delivered with more fabric acquired. It’s fun working out what to do with a pillow case when it does not, at first blush, look like it can be cut to fit the pouch. But then you start to think and this is when transformation and re-purpose occurs. You cut the pillow case to flat, yes there is waste but the pillow case is now usable and you can cut one of the four pieces of pouch from the pillow case. I have also acquired a lovely stack of other pieces of fabric – sheets, doona covers – and will start the cutting process, then the sewing, over the next few days. Using a denim needle makes life so much easier….and especially when you put the needle in the correct way around, the sewing machine tantrums stop and it starts sewing as it is supposed to. Mmmm, me and technology of any sort, I really do wonder sometimes, however, the creatures hopefully like what has been put together for them. ]
Round 2, stage 1, involves cutting out 7 kangaroo day pouches and starting the sewing process. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, we are 4 needles down once I get to the stage of putting the straps on to the 6 pouches that have been assembled. Whether it is the fabric, the needles, the thread or something else, I do not know however at 4 needles with 4 pouches to finish, I call it quits.
This sewing session was a real family affair: we are visiting my mum and dad, I am using mum’s sewing machine, my dad has supervised laying out of the pattern and my mum has helped cut some pattern pieces out, my husband has kept an eye on me with the occasional shoulder rub and one pooch decided she would sit at my feet. She is the reason for this visit – we thought we were going to lose her recently after some serious abdominal surgery (3 lots – a previous sewing session was very therapeutic after her first round, and 2 visits to a dying client). She’s supervised the sewing and been very helpful with her snoozing and keeping feet warm. The 2 quality controllers are out on patrol again, making sure that everything is generally in order. The fabric we are using is donation – old sheets and pillow cases and a doona cover that need careful selection and allocation to items to be sewn. I think I have definitely frightened mum’s sewing machine for a while.
I will have to review what to use the remaining donated fabric for – pillow cases are a bit fiddly but adaptable. That is stage 2 of round 2 along with using some denim needles to finish off the remaining sewing that is awaiting more attention. For now, I gracefully retire with a glass of sparkling to acknowledge life, love and all good things and most importantly to bring in the new lease on life for one little white supervisor
