practice with pillows

to gain the technique, you'll find your 'style' of this nice 'drugfree' relaxing function of a hand/machine utility.

with pillows you're not only functionally passing the time, you'll quickly decide your running stiches(straight) and your cornering techniques.

If you want you can do some topstiching decoration, referred to as embroidery(patches are made this way) which can be VERY small, just dots, and/or long stiches, with all the colors of the rainbow out there now.

Needles can be EXTREMELY relaxing pushing through the fabrics of our lives.

and you'll have a pillow too! old used CLEAN nylons are an excellent and cheap stuffer, make a 'draft/practice pillow' to put the stuffing you choose into, to keep it from rolling around.

you can have a 'stitch an' bitch,' however beer/wine might end up ruining your hard work, stick to tea or coffee, jucing would be nice too

HAPPY STITCHIN'