New Vogues Have Arrived

I ordered the new Vogue patterns after the last sale and have been haunting the mailbox.  Is it just me or did they seem to be taking much longer than usual to ship them out?   I don't know, but fretting about it certainly kept me somewhat dithery.

 

As for my January goals, I actually did pretty well with those.  The goal was to get back into a routine and also to carve out some time that was my time alone to devote to solitary pursuits.  I am not exactly putting in an hour each day on everything but we have a system and a routine, and most importantly I am getting to the things I want to do.  I have not been in the sewing room every day, but I have put in about 6 hours a week the last two weeks and there will be things to show eventually.  I am mostly working on muslins now, and it gets a bit repetitious.  Besides I had abandoned several projects in varying stage of muslin-fitting and it has taken some time to recreate each process and figure out what I was doing before, and if it is worth continuing the project.  And frankly, I am perfectly happy with my progress even if that means that at this point I am more devoted to my gym time than my sewing time.  This too shall pass.

Unfortunately, this week has been absolutely devoid of sewing time.  Granted it is only Wednesday, so I do have time to make that up; and I did spend some time catching up with blogs and internet sites from which I had been absent.  I'm not trying to pull the plug on my internet activities, but I am trying to find some kind of balance between living my life in my life and following  all of your activities online.  Balance is difficult for me in a way.  I tend to bury myself in whatever I am doing and let all the rest slide, but I am trying to be more balanced and I think it is paying off.

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[K-Line]

Balance is difficult indeed. I struggle with the online/offline experience too. Let me say, the Vogue patterns are taking forever. My first batch, ordered before the sale, just arrived yesterday?! Took a long time (close to 2 weeks). Looks like you got some great patterns, M. And I have such interesting tales for you on the sewing front - as soon as I have a chance to send a proper email...