STARTING A SEWING CLASS

I need help. No confidence with my skills and intimidated by the sewing machine, and now I'm at a point with our Patchwork Quilts, that it would be best to machine sew the long strips together. Searched on sewing classes in my town, which is Danvers, and found "let's Get sewing". A woman does this out of her home, in her studio, formerly a garage, then a bedroom for her son, now grown and married, living elsewhere. So I began.

Last night class went well. I was with two young women, late twenties, early thirties perhaps, also just learning to sew. Their immediate motivation was to cover some couch and chair pillow backs from what they ARE to their own decor. 

They were both very nice, and like me, eager, yet nervous, about the machines. We all wound our bobbins and threaded our machines and did some practice stitching, on a white piece of muslin given to us by Donna, the Teacher. And then.... they went to the Cutting Table to begin that part of their projects, and after ironing my seams open, I stitched my first strip. 

Stitches came out great! BUT some of the ends of the hand-stitching is too loose and it was a problem. kind of hard to explain without showing.... but the upshot is, I have to take out that stitching and work on all those loose ends. (Sounds like a Parable for Life, don't you think?)

So, I am planning to get out the stitching sometime today, and over the next few days, do just that.... work on the loose ends, and then re-pin, and try to be ready next week to stitch the strips and have it come out all right. Not necessarily perfect, but OK.

And that's my story, for now.