Ahead of our quilt show next month, we’ve had fancy new quilt stands and decided that the old backdrop cloths were looking shabby.

Someone bought some flat sheets, and I said I’d put hanging loops on them: how hard could it be? Just fold over the top and do a double line of stitching, then a smaller loop at the bottom (to thread a weight through) and a single line of stitching there. I even already had my walking foot on the machine!

God, these sheets are hideous! They’re not square, either in terms of shape or in terms of bias direction, so after unpicking the first line of stitching I had to use way more pins than expected, and then I realised that the edges weren’t straight, so I’ve been resorting to sticking tape on my machine to give me a guide line to sew against.