All basted, it wasn't that bad! Sometimes thinking about a job and psyching yourself up for it is worse than doing it.
One more thing, my friend sent some thread in a sort of hank - the way yarn used to come. "Rice Silamide, waxed for hand sewing, Conviently (sp) put up". Who on earth thinks a big hank of thread (currently draped around my lampshade) is more convenient than a spool!!