Small victories

[dreamshark]

Every time my cell phone falls out of the unsecured outside pocket on my purse I vow that I'm going to Do Something about it. Last night I finally sat down with my sewing machine put a Velcro closing on that little pocket. It took a ridiculously long time. It was easy sewing one side of the Velcro on the pocket flap. The hard part was sewing the matching hunk of Velcro onto the purse side of the opening. I hate to admit how many times I had to stop in the middle and pull out stitches that had accidentally stitched together two random pieces of the purse's interior. But I finally got it done, and it works. Here's hoping this will stem the tide of lost electronics.

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats. I like the kind of velcro with stick-on backing, but I know that sticky stuff doesn't always hold as well as necessary to protect valuable cell phones.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

The trouble with stick-on velcro is that the velcro almost always holds tighter than the stickum. So after a few uses the backing pulls loose instead of the velcro coming apart. The only successful uses I have ever found for stick-on Velcro is in situations where you don't ever intend to pull the Velcro apart again.

Tonight I added some more bits of Velcro on the inside pockets of the same purse. Richard found me some self-stick Velcro, so I tried that. My expectations of success were low, and sure enough it did what it always does (pulled loose). I figured that the stickum would be helpful to hold the Velcro in place while I sewed it, but that didn't work so well either. The sticky stuff in the backing gets all over the sewing machine needle, tangles and breaks the thread, and then you have to clean off the sewing machine needle. Yuck. So I ended up sewing the self-stick Velcro down by hand, which is really more trouble than it is worth.