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Feb. 22nd, 2014 06:46 amOne of my goals for this year has been starting to sew, and I've not made too much progress. I cut out a dress, realized it was beyond my skill level, and decided to back down and make a few things from Diana Rupp's SEW Everything Workshop book. So I cut a pair of pajama pants out of old sheets, to practice on. And I haven't sewn them together yet.
Part of it is all the work I have and other real life busy-nesses. Part of it is my usual "I'm afraid of failing so I'll keep not doing" which is the ultimate in self-defeat. And part of it is that I've continually dialed back my expectations -- I mean, I bought these amazing 1910s patterns that I am by no means ready to make. So then I though I'd made some modern dresses and skirts first. I think the problem is that the easy practice projects just aren't exciting too me, so I'm not feeling moved to push through. Actually pajama pants would be nice, once I buy real fabric for a pair, but then I "should" make a wrap skirt before I try a regular skirt, and I'm just not caring. I don't really *want* a wrap skirt. What I want is some cute modern dresses, and then to make Sense & Sensibility's 1940s Swing Dress and then onto the 1910s. I want a Downton Abbey-ish dinner dress, you know, from the first few seasons when I didn't realize I would be punished for rooting for Sybil/Tom and etc.
I'm also not thrilled because my weight is up a little bit, and my measurements aren't quite their usual selves. Do I sew for this, or do I assume the holiday weight is still going to come off? (Because I have a wardrobe I like in my usual size, I'm rooting for the latter; I have a few skirts that are irreplaceable (the company that made them went out of business) that do fit but in super-sexy, not the way I wanted them for work, kinda way . . . )
Part of it is all the work I have and other real life busy-nesses. Part of it is my usual "I'm afraid of failing so I'll keep not doing" which is the ultimate in self-defeat. And part of it is that I've continually dialed back my expectations -- I mean, I bought these amazing 1910s patterns that I am by no means ready to make. So then I though I'd made some modern dresses and skirts first. I think the problem is that the easy practice projects just aren't exciting too me, so I'm not feeling moved to push through. Actually pajama pants would be nice, once I buy real fabric for a pair, but then I "should" make a wrap skirt before I try a regular skirt, and I'm just not caring. I don't really *want* a wrap skirt. What I want is some cute modern dresses, and then to make Sense & Sensibility's 1940s Swing Dress and then onto the 1910s. I want a Downton Abbey-ish dinner dress, you know, from the first few seasons when I didn't realize I would be punished for rooting for Sybil/Tom and etc.
I'm also not thrilled because my weight is up a little bit, and my measurements aren't quite their usual selves. Do I sew for this, or do I assume the holiday weight is still going to come off? (Because I have a wardrobe I like in my usual size, I'm rooting for the latter; I have a few skirts that are irreplaceable (the company that made them went out of business) that do fit but in super-sexy, not the way I wanted them for work, kinda way . . . )
