Sewing Meditation

[sakon76]

I'm not going to be writing much (stories or novel) for the next couple months. It's because I'm up against a big sewing project, in which I make costumes for two people with the intent of wearing them at Costume Con with some other friends in a few months' time. (We're going to enter them in the Fantasy & Sci-fi Masquerade.) stitchy, who is my partner-in-crime in this endeavor, came over last weekend and we picked out what she wanted, and she came over this weekend and I did a rough pattern draping for her outfit, and over this week I'm going to do a full toile/mock-up for her to try on on Friday.

I think this will be good for me because I haven't sewn much of anything since we moved into Greenwood (our house). Wonderful Husband thinks that the lack of tactile craft stuff like this is part of why I've sometimes felt out of balance. There's a certain soothing meditation to cutting and sewing, or at least there is for me.

But since I haven't sewn in rather a while, I took the opportunity/excuse and pulled out my 1930s butterfly blouse pattern and some blue drapey fabric with roses woven in, and have been using it to get my mind into the right groove. So here I sit at my desk on a holiday morning, going over the sleeve hems with a needle and thread, sewing up a couple of places where the thread slips off the hem, leaving a gap. I only need to sew on the ties and some bias tape to bind the edges and it'll be done. Hoping to finish it today to wear this week.

If I can get everything done in time, who knows, maybe I'll try sewing something for the Single Pattern Contest as well. But that's a distant second thought....

And, there, done with sleeve hems. Time to make breakfast.

Comments

[toothycat]

I get that sort of weird off-kilter feeling too, if I haven't done a comic for a while. Good luck with the projects, and I want to see photos when they're done :)