Which takes more skill, the precision shooting or the wielding of the needle and thread, and which would I rather be doing? Buy the bullets, go to the range fire away as best one may, or take the thread, black, from the thread keeper in the sewing kit (GI 1 each) separate from others, lick the end and twirl, find the needle, find the eye of the needle (how do one's eyes get so old?) stick thread through the eye of the needle, even up the thread and knot the end. Then use several bad examples of sewing stitches upon the patch upon the jacket. Yes, I have heard about the machine age, yes, there is a sewing machine in this house, and I am not technically proficient nor so inclined, I will. How do women get that kind of patience, stitch after stitch, and they do it perfectly. My wife comes by to say farewell, off to her church, and she just notes my efforts - kind enough not to laugh. I know though, she sewed on the other patch, and her stitches are so nicely aligned and true art in function, she didn't have to laugh. Still the patch is on, and the sewing kit will be returned to the desk draw, to hide until the next venture into the speedy repair. It was easier to staple the patch onto the jacket for positioning, hum, if the staples were black I might have just done the whole thing that way....
2 comments:
Congratulations on your successes both with rifle and sewing tools
I use fabric glue.
(Congratulations, Rifleman!)
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