This afternoon, I took a break from doing the reading for my Travel Literature class to focus on sewing. I tend to move back and forth between schoolwork and craftwork, using one as a reprieve for the other. I returned to the jeans that I’d started adding a fabric hem to last week and—nor can I believe it—I finished them. Both legs are now complete. They have their imperfections, but that’s one thing I’m beginning to learn from crafting: that I have to put aside my perfectionism if I ever want to get anything done. And so, in that spirit, one project completed: