Changing lives

Ok, so maybe the drought wasn't quite broken.

I gave up on the jacket. It never even got completely pinned on to the fabric. The dress has stalled half-way round the neck line. Those who know me well know that I can produce multiple excuses out of thin air... but this is not about excuses.

I have discovered that I am making something much bigger than any jacket or dress, and it has been exhausting!

We have also moved house to accommodate our new life, and it is much bigger, airier and has air-conditioning. I have even created a dedicated sewing space...

I have missed sewing. It is good for me - doing something constructive with my time. I am not sure what I will start sewing, as my body is changing daily at the moment. I may even start sewing mini clothes.

For now, I will enroll myself back into classes. It will give me some dedicated time each week to get me back into creating. I will let you know what I decide to make.

break of the sewing drought

Life has been so crazy hectic the last few months, that I lost my sewing mojo for a while. But, life is sorting itself out, and I'm back! I have put the jacket aside for a while - the heat here makes it impossible for me to even think about sewing that jacket; though I should take a leaf from Steph's book (or blog should I say) and make a breezy summer weight jacket for protecting my English skin... one day.

It took a trip to a friends air-conditioned house for me to even attempt to trace off a burda pattern! It was 30C by 9am. unbearable. May or may not help to explain my lumberjack outfit. You choose.

Attempting to pry the pattern out from its staples

mmmm.... sweet sweet breezy 24C air-conditioned paradise. We are moving soon, so hopefully I will no longer need to swelter in the unit with no breeze. fingers crossed! Hopefully I will also have a better sewing space than this:

It consists of my machine perched on my ironing board lowered to the height of whichever chair/couch I wish to sit on. Here I have taken over the WHOLE living room. What you can't see is the iron on the other end of the board, and the random sewing equipment strewn all over the couch and floor :) lucky my husband loves me, huh?!?!

I am making a fairly simple fake wrap dress, with some $2/m poly knit I got in a sale. All up it will only cost $3 in materials to make, and I love the pattern, but I am not totally happy about the poly-ness of it. It is only knee-length, so surely some air will get up for circulation?? I have a floor length dress in similar fabric that feels like wearing a plastic bag, so I am not 100% about it.

It's good to be back.