Stinkerpants

The Fate of the Programs

September 5, 2008 in Our Wedding • Ceremony • DIY Projects • Drawings

This post was originally featured on Weddingbee.  To see all of the comments, you'll have to check them out over there!

As you may recall, I was about a quarter of the way through my programs when I accidentally jammed my sewing machine and production STOPPED.  You may also recall that my solution to this problem was to have a cobbler sew the rest of them, but that they were sewn with the wrong color of thread, prompting my major wedding meltdown (even though it really wasn’t that big of a deal).

Well, my friends, I never showed you the final product!  I realized that this morning!  So here they are!  This is the programs as they were supposed to be: zig-zag stitch with black thread:

and the inside:

These are the front of the ones done by the cobbler.  I knew they would be a straight stitch, but I had asked for black thread.  As it turned out, he sewed them with shoe-colored thread.  Light brown on the front and dark brown on the back.

Here’s a close-up of the the front of the program.  Hopefully you can see the grooves/indentations left by the industrial-strength shoe-shop sewing machine:

I knew that was going to happen, too, and decided I didn’t care.  No one even noticed.

Here’s the back of the programs, with the dark brown thread:

As you can see, it didn’t turn out perfectly.  The ones I did are clearly superior (at least in my ever-so-humble opinion, haha), but you know what?  I wasn’t willing to spend all the time, energy and money to get my sewing machine repaired and sew through another 75 programs.  So in the end, all was well!