Sew much crap
My week has fallen into a pattern: Come home, have lunch, and at 3 o'clock put on Mr. Belvedere reruns and go through my grandfather's stuff. I have a pair of gloves and Clorox wipes, and using both I attend to most of the items. I just don't trust a lot of that stuff with my bare hands. However, if things were in a sealed box or other container, I sometimes let them be--cards and letters, for example.
Yesterday, one container had a melange of stuff in it; I'm not even sure what all of it is. But there were a couple of sets of jeans buttons in there, which reminded me I still had his sewing kit to go through. That was today's task. Oh, my goodness. I thought he had a lot of scissors. He also had lots and lots...and lots...of sewing needles. There were the standard kind that come in a paper sleeve. There were some that came in a circular container, which dispensed the needles when you turned the cover. And then there were the pre-threaded needles, at least three sets of them, so you could sew on the fly.
Then came the buttons. Oh, lord, the buttons. Virtually all the extra buttons in my house are just that, extra buttons that came with our clothes. My grandfather actually went out and purchased buttons, sets of them, multiple sets of them. I'd started taking them off their cardboard holders to consolidate them, then realized it was wasting my time. There are so. many. buttons. And, I found more jeans buttons. There's at least three sets of those. The two I found yesterday actually have a holder to help you set them--you put each piece in the holder, fold it over, then take a hammer to the holder to put the two pieces together, since you don't sew those types of buttons.
Speaking of not sewing, there were also tools included in the kit. The standard one was a seam ripper, which I'd actually thought about getting, or at least wished I'd had not that long ago. Score. Finally something useful in this pile. But I also came across a Buttoneer, which is supposed to be a sort of one-touch button applicator, I suppose. There are very few of the button attachers there, so either he used them or it didn't come with very many. Also, there were not one, but two 1-Stitch tools. I almost thought it was a small glue gun at first. There are these weird zipper-looking plastic things, sort of like a line of staples, that I guess fits into this tool. There aren't any instructions in the kit, so I had to go online to figure out if the plastic things went with that or something else. Luckily I found a good picture and yes, they go together. It might come in handy for something, but I'm not sure yet.
We go back tomorrow, my dad and me, to sort and clean and take and throw away more stuff. I'd sort of hoped to have gotten through last week's piles, but I'm not done yet. There's still tonight. We'll see how long I spend working on it some more.
Yesterday, one container had a melange of stuff in it; I'm not even sure what all of it is. But there were a couple of sets of jeans buttons in there, which reminded me I still had his sewing kit to go through. That was today's task. Oh, my goodness. I thought he had a lot of scissors. He also had lots and lots...and lots...of sewing needles. There were the standard kind that come in a paper sleeve. There were some that came in a circular container, which dispensed the needles when you turned the cover. And then there were the pre-threaded needles, at least three sets of them, so you could sew on the fly.
Then came the buttons. Oh, lord, the buttons. Virtually all the extra buttons in my house are just that, extra buttons that came with our clothes. My grandfather actually went out and purchased buttons, sets of them, multiple sets of them. I'd started taking them off their cardboard holders to consolidate them, then realized it was wasting my time. There are so. many. buttons. And, I found more jeans buttons. There's at least three sets of those. The two I found yesterday actually have a holder to help you set them--you put each piece in the holder, fold it over, then take a hammer to the holder to put the two pieces together, since you don't sew those types of buttons.
Speaking of not sewing, there were also tools included in the kit. The standard one was a seam ripper, which I'd actually thought about getting, or at least wished I'd had not that long ago. Score. Finally something useful in this pile. But I also came across a Buttoneer, which is supposed to be a sort of one-touch button applicator, I suppose. There are very few of the button attachers there, so either he used them or it didn't come with very many. Also, there were not one, but two 1-Stitch tools. I almost thought it was a small glue gun at first. There are these weird zipper-looking plastic things, sort of like a line of staples, that I guess fits into this tool. There aren't any instructions in the kit, so I had to go online to figure out if the plastic things went with that or something else. Luckily I found a good picture and yes, they go together. It might come in handy for something, but I'm not sure yet.
We go back tomorrow, my dad and me, to sort and clean and take and throw away more stuff. I'd sort of hoped to have gotten through last week's piles, but I'm not done yet. There's still tonight. We'll see how long I spend working on it some more.