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.
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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