You do the Math!

Aside from spinning, I've been working on Aubrey's Wedding Sweatshop as her steward. Literally. She's getting married in June at a nature preserve where there are park benches she cannot move. So, we're covering it up with table cloths and custom sewn bench cushions. How many you wonder? A LOT!

• 29 picnic tables @ 7 feet long each
• 58 bench seats (2 benches per table)
  
• 58 box style bench cushions
• 580 cut pieces of fabric (58 tops + 58 bottoms + 116 long sides + 116 short sides + 232 straps)
  
• 116 foam inserts to cut (2 one inch inserts per seat cushion)
  
• Over 70 yards of fabric = 1000 lbs (well, it felt like it!)
• 4 sewing machines
• 1 bloody finger

We "opened" this sweatshop this past Saturday, spending 5 hours cutting and sewing. The good news is that we've managed to cut about 3/4 of what we need, and we started sewing some of the pieces together. The bad news is that we still have more to do, and I think I saw blue and white fiber fuzz when I blew my nose. The bloody finger belonged to JayJay, who somehow stabbed herself as she cut one of the 580 pieces. Luckily, there weren't any other injuries.

The 5 sweatshop workers that showed up are all of the bride-owner's knitting friends, and I was the only bridesmaid. I bet Aubrey now knows who her truly dedicated friends are now! ;)

"A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."
~ William Penn