The last 29 hours
It is seven thirty on a beautiful Friday evening and I am sat in the garden at my mum’s house enjoying the warm summer evening while she chats on the phone to my little brother. I thought this would be a good moment to get typing on my phone with another blog installment.
I had a wonderful evening last night plotting and scheming with my good friend Debby. After two false starts on Tue and Wed we finally got down to our creative business and I have been left with an amazing sense of excitment about some new projects. It’s too soon to drop any clues yet, but I’ll be making some announcements here on my blog in the not too distant future. Hopefully you will want to be involved too.
And in sewing news, I am planning on making my first item of clothing since I was a teenager. I have a pattern for a shirt from a recent issue of Sew magazine, which I am hoping I will be able to wear for work next week.
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Cut forward 19 hours and I’m sat waiting for my train into Leeds. I’ve spent the morning browsing the internet for some fabric ideas for my shirt and now I am ready to hit the market. I’m a little anxious about the conversation I will be having with the stall holders. I really don’t know much about fabrics and I’m not in the mood to be patronised when I start asking questions. Hopefully I’ll be meeting some people who’ll enjoy my interest.
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Fast forward another ten hours and here I am having just finished cutting out my first pattern and itching to start sewing, but that would just be unfair on my neighbours. Sometimes I really hate living in a flat. So here I am uploading all this blog from the last couple of days activities.
I can report that I have a very successful shopping trip to Leeds Market and found a lovely fabric store, where they happily spent the time explaining the different fabrics for the different projects I am planning. I have now washed and ironed all the fabric and chopped out my first pattern ready to start (actually not the shirt, but a jersey cotton tie up top). I even traced the patterns onto seperate pattern paper, so I can reuse the pattern in different sizes. Because I’m going to need that when I slim out of my current wardrobe. See – that positive thinking is still going past midnight – I am doing well.
Well, I think I’m ready for my nightly glass of milk and hopefully I’ll be able to get to sleep in this close muggy weather.
Good Night All,
Jan
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