Torn it

I managed to put my foot through a sheet this morning -- not the sides-to-middle one I only just finished, but the bottom sheet that shrank in its first wash (I didn't read the label and hadn't realised in any case that rushing it through on the machine's 1 hour programme would heat the water to 60C) and had to have a strip inserted into it in order to make it fit the bed again.

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I assumed that the seam must have ripped along the stitching line, but in fact it is still quite sound (and the stitches hasn't burst either) -- the fabric has simply torn through at a point definitely clear of the seam. Although it may not be a coincidence that it is close by. ( Read more... )