Craft update.

[fj_warren]

I have threaded my new machine! Yay. I have also had a go at sewing with it. Double yay! Next attempt is to sew something with it. Bit nervous about but can't be as bad as my mother was when my dad bought her an electric sewing machine back in the 1960's. Mum had a wind the handle type before but dad was confident that she would soon get the hang of it. Dad aka 'Wonderman' sat at the machine, threaded it, got a scrap of material, slapped his foot on the foot control and promptly produced a perfect piece of straight sewing. Then he told mum to try! She did all the things he did but kept her foot hard down on the foot control as the scrap of material shot through the machine and flew off across the table. The machine rattled away like a machine gun and father was hopping about in a state of acute anxiety as he imagined she would break it before it had been in the house for less than 2 hours!

Lift your foot! Lift your foot! He screamed at her. She did - the left one whilst the right one stayed firmly pressing down on the foot control! Mother was never one for anything too technical! Lol