'You probably won’t be quilting family heirlooms with it or enrolling at FIT, but you can definitely make simple dresses and cushion covers and, in my case, a wonderfully wonky bucket hat that my friends have been very polite about'
Photo: Katherine Gillespie I spent year one of the pandemic defiantly backsliding in terms of self-improvement, picking up few new skills and devoting most of my spare time to refreshing Twitter and a select few cherished group chats. But by the time 2021 dawned, I was exhausted by the discourse and found myself on a belated homestead hobbyist kick after all. Bread baking was too basic, woodwork a safety hazard. Picking up a book was obviously out of the question.
With Janome’s calmingly paced videos as a guide, setting up the machine was effortless. I went through the playlist a few times before I felt confident enough to sew, but seeing the machine in action was much more beneficial than pouring over a series of vaguely detailed diagrams before giving up and texting someone to meet at a bar.
Most important of all, and I cannot emphasize it enough: This thing is easy to switch on and use. Kind of the whole issue with sewing, at least for me, is I spend most of my time preparing to sew rather than actually sewing my way across a gorgeous piece of Etsy-sourced fabric. There’s the constant bobbin winding and rethreading, the finicky cutting of pattern pieces, the politics of grain alignment, the eyesight-destroying task of pinning little bits of paper and cloth on top of each other.
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