Shoes

[igenlode]

I got within five or six holes of the end of sewing the front apron onto my new Simple Way shoes before I realised that I'd got the holes misaligned somewhere, and that I had one more stitch-hole left in the apron than in the upper. I spent almost an hour in laboriously unpicking the sewing so that the thread could be re-used and the pre-punched holes weren't damaged (far slower than sewing it up in the first place!), and counting and recounting the remaining numbers of holes in each piece to try to find out when I'd got past the mistake, a process which got slower and slower the more stitches I unpicked.

I eventually found the error right back at the start, when I'd skipped a hole in the leather upper (hidden under the apron) with only the fourth stitch I'd made. So I now have to sew the whole thing up again and hope I don't miss any more holes while feeling blindly about inside the shoe... It's the classic mistake, and I've done it at least once per pair of Simple Way shoes I've made :(