Sometimes I like to tinker with my side projects. Today’s side project? Sewing. My friend ripped my shirt, which kind of made me mad. He offered to buy a new one, but I just told him to save his money.
Now, most of you probably think I’m cheap, but that’s not always the case. It’s true, I don’t like wasting money. But I just don’t like wasting anything. I mean, no, I don’t wash my paper plates or anything, but I tend to avoid paper plates.
I take care of things so they last. Like my bright colored shirts? They’re bright colored because I hang dry them.
I don’t like to waste things. So even though my friend offered to buy a new shirt, I told him no. It was a casual shirt, and therefore didn’t need to be prefect. This is the tear:
It was along a seam, so I think it’s fixable, right?
Well, I went to it. The first thing I did was clean the edges because they looked messy.
Then I tried to use pins to hold it still. That didn’t work at all, so sewing it was a lot of hand maneuvering.
I eventually got it decent looking. Two things were off. The main thing was the extra bits of fabric after sewing it together. I trimmed that. All the cutting I did for the entire project basically produced balls of fuzz because it was so little.
I initially started sewing a loop to mend the pieces together, but then I decided that wouldn’t allow for the angles of the fabric to line up right, so I changed to more if a weave.
Here’s the final product:
