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Dec. 30th, 2011 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Family holidays are over; my inlaws flew back to England yesterday, and arrived home safely today. Hooray for uneventful flights and drives.
Wonderful Husband and I are starting to recover from the food bloat of past weeks and are also beginning to work our way through the leftovers jam-packed into our fridge. We skipped the gym last night, but will be going tonight. Hallelujah! And while we skipped, I started work on my last clean-up area: the sewing nook. My sewing stuff had previously been scattered in various places around the house: a mending project here, an embroidery frame there, a pattern I was studying yet another place.... No longer. During my cleaning fits, I put everything craftsy in the sewing area.
Thus, it is currently overflowing.
Last night I started in on the chaos. Now, unlike unearthing my desk, wherein a good portion of the mess simply got tossed into the recycling bin, clearing out the sewing area means making things. Finishing projects. Or else selecting a goodly chunk of stuff to go to Goodwill. Miser that I am, I currently don't want to do a Goodwill donation, so I started in on finishing projects instead and repaired a shirt and a pair of trousers for Wonderful Husband. He actually broke even on shirts for the evening, as I returned one to service but the one he was wearing irreparably tore, and is now with a couple other ex-shirts to get made into rags. Or something. I keep having the niggling feeling that I can do something better than rags with silk shirts. Bias tape maybe? I also sewed together the last trim band for my medieval gown and started applying it. Lots of pins! Two more seams and a bit of handwork and it'll be done.
I've written out a list of things I want to get done, sewing-wise. It's incomplete; there are a couple of knit tops for myself, for instance, that aren't on there. But there are several items that will push at the edges of what I can easily do, which is a good thing. I'm long overdue for stretching my skills. Thus I am considering making sewing my focus activity for either January or February....
Wonderful Husband and I are starting to recover from the food bloat of past weeks and are also beginning to work our way through the leftovers jam-packed into our fridge. We skipped the gym last night, but will be going tonight. Hallelujah! And while we skipped, I started work on my last clean-up area: the sewing nook. My sewing stuff had previously been scattered in various places around the house: a mending project here, an embroidery frame there, a pattern I was studying yet another place.... No longer. During my cleaning fits, I put everything craftsy in the sewing area.
Thus, it is currently overflowing.
Last night I started in on the chaos. Now, unlike unearthing my desk, wherein a good portion of the mess simply got tossed into the recycling bin, clearing out the sewing area means making things. Finishing projects. Or else selecting a goodly chunk of stuff to go to Goodwill. Miser that I am, I currently don't want to do a Goodwill donation, so I started in on finishing projects instead and repaired a shirt and a pair of trousers for Wonderful Husband. He actually broke even on shirts for the evening, as I returned one to service but the one he was wearing irreparably tore, and is now with a couple other ex-shirts to get made into rags. Or something. I keep having the niggling feeling that I can do something better than rags with silk shirts. Bias tape maybe? I also sewed together the last trim band for my medieval gown and started applying it. Lots of pins! Two more seams and a bit of handwork and it'll be done.
I've written out a list of things I want to get done, sewing-wise. It's incomplete; there are a couple of knit tops for myself, for instance, that aren't on there. But there are several items that will push at the edges of what I can easily do, which is a good thing. I'm long overdue for stretching my skills. Thus I am considering making sewing my focus activity for either January or February....
