Over half a kilometre of fabric strips

The sewing machine pedal gave up.
Another spring broke yesterday before the end of the working day, and the quilting on the kaleidoscope quilt, and the whole almost finished quilt, had to be left where it was.

If you cannot sew, there is nothing for it but to cut fabric up. 🙂
No long story, and I will not show all the pieces: 240 squares were left out of the picture so as not to give away what I have planned. In the picture there are 560 m of strips, 4 cm wide. Some are 8 cm wide as well.
When the work starts moving along, there will be more pictures.

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Violin case repair

Last school year, I repaired my grandchild's violin case. The loops meant for attaching the backpack straps had torn off. She cycles to school, and it’s impossible to ride while holding the violin in your hand. Naturally, the violin and case—which belonged to the school—went back at the start of the summer. Now that the new school year has begun, she has been issued a school violin and case again, but this one is in even worse condition than last year's. So, I undertook the repair once more. This time, I decided to replace the entire back panel—including the piping—and cover the torn section at the end of the case with a leather patch. I used reflective tape for the top layer of the piping. The video condenses six hours of work into three minutes. If anyone finds themselves in need of a similar repair, I will be able to take on a few jobs starting in February 2027, and I can handle a few at a time during the summer break.

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