Did you see the new Hot Patterns Three Graces Tee? I have been thinking about something along just these lines as I looked at the things in my closet and contemplated what I need to fill in a few empty corners, and Voilá, pattern needs fulfilled.
Of course, I ordered it. I am pretty certain that I have fabric to use making it up, but I am still working on colors/what I actually want -- I've never been one to just make something without some sort of plan.
And speaking of planning that pretty much covers what I've been up to. I had a stack of muslins that I have worked on in the last couple of years, a bunch of UFOs, and tons of plans that I have written about here or just jotted down in various notebooks. It really is well past time I had some kind of coherent way to keep track of things. But then, I really let a lot of stuff slide for a long time, and I just can't let it continue on in that chaotic state. So I am gathering together and making right; working mostly in bits and pieces. I have time to indulge in my various interests and creative endeavors, but it is more scattered time than before, and I am rather enjoying the slow togetherness right now, still working out balancing time together versus alone, especially since G's initiative and ability to find ways to occupy himself will probably never be quite what it was.
I did get time to file the patterns I ordered from Vogue. It was a large order and it took me quite a while. I hate to think that there previous orders stacked up on the side of my sewing room floor, waiting for me to file them.
On Friday, the first day I had to work on it following a whirlwind visit from step-son Adam, I printed out all the catalog pages so I could put them in my pattern notebooks. Even though this is so much easier now that I can just copy the pictures directly from Vogue's website, faster than scanning in patterns, and far faster than my pre-computerized days when I traced or sketched all the pattern drawings on onionskin paper that I kept in my planner, I was sick of it by the time I was done and the pages were filed in the notebooks.
So I really didn't make the pattern files until Saturday. I had lots of help from Sam and Moisés, who were practicing an uneasy detente so that they could both be on my cutting table, sitting on the patterns and chasing bits of paper hither and thither while I tried to work. You see the trimmings from the laminating sheets above right after Moises learned that he could slide on them. I hoped he would be in the picture but unfortunately he slid right off the table just before I snapped the picture.
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