Weekend Warriors

I put my mom and Mutti to the ultimate test two weeks ago when I was in Midland. I drove into town with a mission - to make the crib bumper pads for Anna's bedding. Of course the pattern I found online was 9 pages long and had more steps than one could imagine but I thought that since my mom and grandmother had made clothes, curtains, tablecloths, and everything under the sun, that this would be a breeze! Little did I know that neither of them had sewed in years so we spent hours and hours pouring over the instruction manuals and after giving up on the New Home sewing maching after countless hours of trying to get it to work, I headed to Mutti's house for 5 hours on Saturday to use the fancy Bernina machine.

Mom reading the instructions and trying to remember how to thread the bobbin and the needle. We couldn't get the thread to sew properly so at 10 pm, we gave up. I finally figured out days later that the reason the machine wasn't working was because there was about 20 years worth of lent built up inside the machine so as soon as I cleaned it, the machine worked like a charm. I just wish we would have figured that out when I was in Midland!

Gizmo thought the bumper pad inserts were his new dog bed!

Notice we switched sewing machines...this one worked much better!

The finished product...FINALLY! They turned out really cute and thank you to my mom and Mutti for spending too many hours helping me create them. They had no idea they would truly spend an entire weekend relearning how to use their sewing machines!!

My mom woke up at 6 am on Sunday to finish sewing and when I woke up 2 hours later (oops!), they were almost 100% complete. I finished stitching the seams on the ties and since Mutti didn't skip church like we did, she came over after to see the finished bumper pads. Mom wanted to make sure I left Midland with the finished pads so we all 3 worked feverioushy to have them finished by Sunday!

THANK YOU MOM AND MUTTI...I OWE YOU!!