reading the instructions helps

Astonishing discovery: careful reading and application of my sewing machine's instructions about "how to do applique stitch" produce a better result than just grabbing the zigzag stitch foot and having a go at it. Also, tacking stuff in place before machine-appliqueing round the edges provides a better result than pinning/zigzag stitching round the edges. Also fewer broken needles from when a stitch hits a pin. I'm sure there's a moral in this somewhere.

Two days left. Ah well, it's been a nice week.

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“They lied to you. The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.”

-- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco