Last night my wife ironed and sewed about 1/2 the innner-pleats. This morning she finished them. Then we realized that they were wrong and she and my mother pulled all of the stiches on the inner pleats back out . However we were still feeling hopeful and positive.

Then while my mother was testing out how to do the bar tack the sewing machine decided to stop sewing forward. Yup it will only sew backward.

So we're on hold until we can rent or borrow another sewing machine.