i hate sewing!

it's my turn to wash the little cot sheets from school.. ( a couple of people have asked why there is no washer/dryer at school... i don't know, maybe because toddlers is the only program with cots, requiring sheets... supplied by the school? the other programs have mats for resting..no sheets ) anyway.. i have only had to do them a couple of times in the last 2 years and i don't mind, but every time i've done them, the little elastic strap thingies get all twisted and stretched, sometimes twisted right off... i thought it was my washer, but it's the dryer...

they were all tangled and clumped together in the dryer, needless to say, many were not dry so i sorted them all out and while i was folding and checking the dry ones, i noticed that the elastic thingies were getting caught on the lint catcher thingy... twisting away... so i stood there and kept untangling them till they were dry (only about 5 minutes.. )

we also have serveral perfectly fine cot sheets with very stretched out elastic that has been tied and retied to keep them neatly on the cots, but not very... so i thought i would replace all the wrecked elastic.. how hard can that be?  how long would that take me?  hahahahaha

i hate sewing.. the things i sew, either with the machine or by hand are pretty simple.. seams, hems...
but i can't seem to sew a straight line most of the time.. my fingers are clumsy, my eyesight is poor, my  patience is limited in this area...

so this is how it went..

day 1

start removing old, broken, stretched elastic using seam ripper to open fold and replace with new elastic..
poke hole in sheet...
pin new elastic in place
poke finger with pins
repeat 3 times..
1 sheet ready to sew

cut old, broken, stretched elastic where it comes out of fold
pin new elastic on top (it will be on the bottom of the sheet anyway, so who will notice)
poke finger with pins
repeat forever
many sheets, ready to sew

day 2

take out sewing machine
change red thread for white
replace bobbin
sew a paper napkin to see if bobbin is in correctly
fix bobbin

start sewing
poke fingers with pins
forget to hold onto thread when starting
rethread machine
sew several crooked lines (good enough)
repeat till half of sheets are done
run out of bobbin thread
refill bobbin
run out of thread
replace thread and bobbin
sew paper napkin to see if bobbin is in correctly
fix bobbin
quit for the day

day 3

count sheets to see how long this is going to take to finish

start sewing
break thread
rethread machine
count sheets again
poke fingers with pins
sew
forget to hold onto thread
rethread
sew
repeat repeat repeat
wonder why i thought this was a good idea

so there are, maybe, 20 little sheets and not all of them needed fixing, and some of them only needed one or 2 corners redone (oh and there were 2 sheets that were the wrong size and i figured i could alter them to fit, who am i kidding here? )  it should have been a quick little project..
i hate sewing