This summer, I was on my biggest sewing kick in 14 years. For years I had only been motivated enough to make curtains, and even then I mostly resorted to tearing the fabric on the grain and hanging the curtains (unhemmed) from clips. But this summer, I really needed some sundresses. I'd been wearing the same summer dresses for years and I just couldn't stomach another summer in the things. I unburied my sewing machine from the garage, pulled my JoAnn's coupon out of the recycling, and combed the pattern books for something cute.
The first dress I made? Total potato sack. The second dress? Potato sack's sister. But when I made the third dress? Jackpot! After that winner, I just couldn't stop. I made more dresses and then I made hats and purses and shorts and skorts and Halloween costumes and blouses until…
I lost the will to sew.
And, of course, I lost it after I bought all of the patterns and fabric and notions for all the things I planned to make this winter. Nice!
One of the reasons I started this blog was to create a space to share my sewing projects. I had so many things I wanted to show you and there were so many more things lining up. But when I actually started the blog, all I felt like doing was taking pictures and talking about things other than sewing.
I started to get a little more (okay, a lot more) motivated this weekend, though, when I realized how much I would have to do in order to get my little sister's present out in the mail by Monday, which is now today. I still have much to do for the gifts for my mom and other sister by Christmas Eve but I have Tuesday and Wednesday to panic about that, right?
I'm pretty sure I'll be taking another sewing break after Christmas. Hopefully this one won't last for 14 years because I don't think that the shirt I'm making for Perry (the one that's already been cut out and is now crumpled in a pile on top of a basket next to the markers) will fit him in 14 years.
