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6/5/2015

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So I may have had less time to do 'proper' sewing, but I have done more cross stitch than I have for years, and this is the result! I had started this but done very little until my pregnancy, but spent many hours doing it while I was too miserable to do much else, and then found that it was a good thing to squeeze into brief moments of relaxation as it didn't require scisssors, sewin machine or pins (all baby hazards!)
I love the result and need to put it in a frame so I can put it on the wall, along with another picture from the same series I completed while I was in uni.
And I promised I'd blo
g what I'd done even if it was tiny, last night I added binding to the armhole of the sahri bustle dress, and prepared the binding for the other side. I
got the sewing clips as a free gift with a magazine and I think they're going to be useful - I don't normally have a problem with pins, but at least these can't damage curious baby fingers, althouh I'll have to keep track of them or he might eat one!

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Frustration...

6/5/2015

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I LOVE being a mum. But I'm also frustrated that I have no time to sew anymore! So I need to make the best of the time I have, and recognise the sewing that I have done (I am a very short sighted person when it comes to emotions - when I feel sad, I feel like I've always been sad and will always be sad. Same thing with happiness.)

So my goals are...
1) Work on my UFO's so that I get the buzz of completing things/get rid of the UFO guilt
2) Blog the small victories, even if I'm the only one reading it.
3) Try to remember things I had learnt from experience so i don't have to learn them by making mistakes again (see post script)
4) Once my UFOs are done, choose projects that are either quick and easy or which I will really enjoy both the process and the result.

So if I stick to that there should be some more posts coming very soon!

P.S. The Jenna dress in the last post? It went in the bin. The fabric was awful - it had really bad recovery, so several parts got stretched out of shape while I was sewing them and never went back in spite of pressing and washing. Lesson relearnt: don't waste your time on cheap fabric! I'm also not in love with the pattern any more. I still like the details and the finish, but the dress itself was shapeless and the waistline really, really low, which I wasn't expecting. It wasn't till I tried it on (3/4 finished) and hated it that I went back to the pattern picture and realised that the picture is of the dress on a hanger, not a person. D'oh! Lesson relearnt: If it doesn't fit the model on the packet, it's not gonna fit you, and if there isn't a picture of the actual dress on an actual person, there's probably a reason for that.
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