So where did the last few months go? My lack of activity here seems to coincide almost exactly with my taking on new responsibilities at work and I think it's sapped my energy more than I thought it would do. I have done quite a lot of sewing- I've even had weeks in which I've made several things- but I didn't get round to blogging about them. Maybe I'll have a day and rope someone in to take pictures and spend all day trying on outfits of things I've made and then put them up here. 
I was also kind of participating in Me-Made-May although without actually signing up to it and definitely got further than last June's attempt. I made it to last Friday wearing something that I'd made every day, then a combination of bad planning and being away from home (and reluctance to iron) led to two days of wearing bought clothes only. I feel a slight sense of failure but it's not as if I'm going to lose any sleep over it. I'm back on the bandwagon now and only missed a couple of days.


In the last few months I have:

• bought a lot more patterns than I should have or needed to.
• made several things I have worn a lot and which are now thoroughly embedded in my wardrobe (particularly a Vogue 1250 and a Simplicity 2599 that I added 3/4 sleeves to).
• made several more things that I have worn only once or not at all!
• made nothing from the three and a half year stash of Burda magazines.
• become the very proud owner of a fabulous sewing room. It's also the guest room but is generally known as "the room of loveliness" and is my go-to place for succour for the soul.
• thought about sewing and planned projects and drawn little pictures of garments and written lists of patterns and fabrics for much more time than I've actually spent sewing.
• still not hemmed the curtains blogged about in August. Hemming is so boring.

So this is my new determination to blog more frequently and perhaps even get around to putting up some pictures of things I've made! Eventually......

Essay finished but still procrastinating

The black cloud that has loomed over me for the last few weeks has finally lifted with the completion of the last wretched piece of work of any length for my teaching qualification. There's still a lot to do and no doubt I'll carry on putting everything off until the last minute, driving myself into a blue funk, avoiding everything and everybody until the last lesson plan and evaluation has been wrested from my brain. I have to say though that I feel a lot better this morning! Looking through patterns, which I've been doing a lot of (it's great procrastination) has taken on a feeling of possibly allowing myself some time to actually make something rather than just staying in the fantasy world of mentally pairing up stash and patterns.

I have a Burda World of Fashion skirt cut out in some ancient leftover apricot cotton twill but the fly fastening is putting me off starting it. I've even cut the facings out of a lovely Liberty cotton lawn. I have the zip and the thread and everything! Ok, let's make a plan. Today I'll go to the University and drop off my assignment, come back and write lesson plans for tomorrow and then do a bit of housework (yeah right!). Tomorrow, teaching, including an observation, then Thursday..... sewing!! Definitely! (Probably!)