Sewing is one of the many activities I deem should be left to machines. Along with car manufacturing and finding Sarah Conner. Alas, one of the less glamorous factors in an acting career is costume maintenance. Although in many standalone theatres there may be entire departments dedicated to washing, repairing and general costume upkeep, on the road it is one of our many jobs. Which means, when my base costume layer (Hook's underwear) developed a drastic tear reaching from the small of my back down to my left thigh, it was my job to stitch it back together.
The experience has not revived a long-lost love of sewing, nor has it encouraged me to mend my own clothes in the future; it has simply confirmed that my hands are far too big to be of any use other than for eating, lifting, and high-fiving. I may be more delicate with my future movements to avoid further seam-splitting.
Or I may man up and keep on threading the needle.
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