A Stitch in Paper...

So, I have a new development in my Personal Choices class: using the sewing machine.

Yep, not only that, but in a couple days, I'll be making a pair of boxer shorts!!!

But right now, we're practicing, by putting a piece of paper under the needle instead of fabric, and no thread. So we get a paper with a bunch of parallel lines on it, and we have to "stich" a line between each pair of lines (the result is sort of like using a REALLY small hole punch and creating a line of holes) to get our accuracy right. This one was pretty easy...

Then they gave us one with a triangle pattern we were supposed to stitch through. This wasn't too bad, just stopping at a point, rotating the paper, and going again.

THEN we had to do ZIG-ZAGS!!! Okay, I'm not gonna lie, this was a tough one. First of all, we had to not stitch between the lines, but TRACE them. I only managed to get two out of four finished by the time the bell rang. Next time: CIRCLES.

(shivers)