Trip to the North Part 2: Make Do & Mend

Traveling north was to see our daughter, in her senior recital of grad school at Bowling Green State University.  A text/picture arrived a few weeks before the trip....the dress was purchased for the performance, but needed alterations:

Easy, right?  A quick hem!

Time was put aside one afternoon, went went to the local quilt shop and picked up some thread, and got home to her apartment where I started by cleaning out her sewing machine.  Yikes. (yes, that's lint)

Got that all cleaned out, put the bobbin case in, then the bobbin, and did a test sew.  Needle broke.  Took everything out again, re-inserted everything, needle changed.  Sewed - needle broke.  Did this ONCE more before it was time for a drastic switch to plan B.  (I can only troubleshoot so far.)

Back to the quilt shop for some Stitch Witchery. Came back to her apartment, and got going:

On the floor, using a portable ironing mat.  Because that's what you do when you're in a tiny one bedroom apartment!

(taking the straps up - this looks messier than the final look:  I intentionally hand stitched a 'satin stitch' kind of look to hold the cut pieces together.)

And well, voila:

And what comes to mind is that line from Ratatouille, where Chef Gusteau says, "Anyone can cook!"

"Anyone can sew!"