This is the other piece of fabric that I bought at the same time as this and I did the same thing with it except with a V-neck this time. (Headless shot this time because I'm feeling too lazy this morning to take 50 photos so I can maybe get one in which I'm not making a weird face.)
I love it. Like the other one, it is so comfortable.
Oh, by the way, did you want to see progress on the house? We now have floor joists, including the front porch.
It feels like things are moving along faster lately. It's starting to feel like we might actually manage to finish this crazy project.
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This is that time of year when I go, "Nooooooo! It can't be August already! I'm not ready for summer to be over!" I like warm weather, I love wearing cool, breezy summer dresses. I haven't sewn as many dresses for myself this year as I had planned to. One reason is that I sewed a lot for my granddaughter and that's great. It's so fun to have a little girl to sew for. But there are other reasons. My closet is full! So far I can always manage to stuff one more dress or blouse or tunic into it but it's so hard to find anything in it I keep wearing the same half dozen dresses.
This summer has been weird. It was hot for a little while but we have also had a lot of days that are almost like fall. And then there's our air conditioner situation. Late last summer our central AC stopped cooling. I wanted to get it fixed one more time but my husband said no, let's just get three window air conditioners and we can donate them after we move into the new house. They work okay but they're very inconsistent. Sometimes it's 78F so I turn it down just one degree then half an hour later it will be 72F, which feels very cold to me. So I haven't been wearing my dresses as much this year, which makes me sad and not very motivated to make more.
The spare room where my cutting table is didn't get one of the air conditioners so most days it's too hot to be in except very early in the morning so I haven't been cutting as much. And that's just purely a matter of motivation. I do wake up early and I could force myself to stop wasting time in the morning and get to the cutting before it gets too hot but the main thing is the lack of motivation to make more dresses that I probably won't wear much if at all.
I did take a few things to Goodwill about a month ago. While I was going through the closet to find things I could get rid of I found a blouse that I thought I had taken to Goodwill years ago. Now the logical thing to do would have been to add it to the things going to Goodwill this time since I didn't even know I still had it but I was so surprised and happy to find it. I have actually thought about it a few times and wished I hadn't given it away so to find that I hadn't... Well, of course I kept it.
My closet in the new house will be twice as big but no doubt I will over-fill that one within a year. [sigh]
yeah, when I was waiting on getting the new whole-house unit a couple years ago I remember that being an issue with the window units - I'd turn the one on in my bedroom, set it to something like 75, and I'd wake up in the middle of the night FREEZING because it had dropped the temperature to like 65. And the one the guys loaned me for the living room, it would be like "too hot, too hot, too hot....suddenly too cold"
ReplyDeleteAnd I dislike cutting things out (worst step of sewing, I think, after having to fit the pattern to yourself) so it takes a lot of motivation for me to do it.
Cutting is the part of sewing that I like the least.
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