sister_raphael | Progress is hard.

Progress is hard when you've made sad discoveries about the thing you're working on. It kind of takes the will to do nice work and finish it.

I'm now sewing like mad on a green cloak. I unpicked the machine stitching to hand sew it and have discovered 9 tiny holes in the fabric. I knew it was recycled wool when I bought it, but hadn't seen all the holes until I started draping it and sewing on it, so now I'm sad that I paid a good price for a cloak that has holes in it already.

A while back I bought a recycled wool cloak which was machine stitched with the view of re sewing it by hand. Half was completed and as I'm sewing I've found 9 very small holes which weren't apparent on first inspection.

So much for putting fancy brooches on it and being a fancy mantle. I guess it's to be darned and now a "worst" cloak. I helped a friend sell a bunch of other ones, so now I'm really worried that their cloaks may have teeny holes too.

I could have left it machined and used it for a loan cloak if I had have noticed sooner, and it's been stored in an air tight container, so they aren't new holes. One darned spot I could have hidden, but 9!! Very sad.

And yes, if they were that small, what's the big deal? Small holes become tears and bigger holes. Since I didn't make it, I have no threads I can use to darn with, just some fuzz where I've trimmed the inside seams which I can possible needle felt later on.

Sigh.

I had plans to put fancy jewelled brooches on it but I won't bother now, and it's already been dropped down to Not A Good Cloak already before it's even finished.