I got my machine back!

Today I finally got my machine back from being serviced. It had it's handled replaced and a once-over cleaning. I picked it up on the way into block party and brought six different projects to work on. I was able to get to two of them tonight.

The first project was to make a back for my signature quilt that my friends made for my 30th birthday. I finished that and sent it off to my quilter via her daughter-in-law.

My second project was a set of jeans that I have which recently got a rip right next to one of the back pockets. Now I have a lot of jeans that this has happened to, but none have been just a few months old and fit as nice as these. I decided to take them tonight to see if I could mend them. At the very least I was going to buy a denim patch and do the iron-on thing. So tonight I brought them out and was asking the other quilters for opinions on how to fix them when the Viking lady (who happened to be back there at the time) was telling me that I should darn them. I have never darned anything in my life so we had to pull out the book and she showed me how, this is the result:

 

I think this will work very well for other jeans where I have this problem. I just probably need to find closer thread colors. But most times I'm wearing shirts that go beyond this point. I'm just super excited that I learned how to do this!