Sense of accomplishment

[spacealien_vamp]

I had my first English club meeting today. Luckily, this time I was given some direction: the English club is supposed to give a 10 minute performance at an English seminar next month, then again (the same performance) at a "creative" event the school is having. (On a related note, I'm supposed to give a 20 minute speech on "Living in Japan" at the seminar.) The easiest thing for the students to do is sing/dance in English. After much debate, they decided upon three songs (two from Disney movies) that they want to sing.

After I got home, I put the finishing touches on my first project using my Japanese sewing machine. You can't really tell from the picture, but there are four buttons on the shirt, which I'm relatively proud of, since figuring out how to make the buttonholes was an adventure. I'm rather pleased with how it turned out, for a first try.

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And I bet it was a lot less than 50 bucks?

Well, let's see...I'd estimate...
$23 for the fabric
$5 for the pattern
$4 for the buttons
$2 for the thread
$150 for the sewing machine.

Well, at least the sewing machine is reusable.

I'm unbelievably impressed that you made not one, but four of them.

The sewing machine comes with a buttonhole-making pressure foot. The tricky part is marking the fabric *exactly* where you want the buttonhole to be. After that, the machine pretty much does the rest automatically. ...And then you get to use a seam ripper to slash the hole open. That's the fun part.