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Every so often, such as when I’m getting ready to go somewhere nice, I realize that I don’t have any cute clothes to wear. I have a few suits so court dates and interviews are covered but I really don’t have anything else besides t-shirts, jeans and hoodies. Of course, I always think that once I start sewing I can make myself the perfect clothes but how likely is that reality? I don’t even know what I like. However, I do think learning how to sew alterations on my own clothes would be practical; that’s the next class I plan on taking. I would also really like to know how to make my own t-shirts. It’s always a bother trying to find them in colors I like and in a long enough cut. I had thought you needed a serger, though, so I never thought much about actually doing it. Recently, I came across mention of a new book By Wendy Mullin, Sew U Home Stretch: The Built by Wendy Guide to Sewing Knit Fabrics [via]. She gives instructions for sewing with knits with or without a serger and I’m very interested.
This weekend, I am taking another sewing class and currently, my old iron horse sewing machine is at the repair shop. Next, the gold Vegas Elvis machine will go in for a tune-up or whatever it should be called.
I recently read a few interesting things about women starting up their own craft businesses. Sarah of thesmallobject wrote an answer to the question: How did you start your business? Which led me to spend a good deal of time reading The Switchboards, founded “to support and publicize creative women in business through the use of an online community forum, product displays, mutual links and joint advertising.” I read all the articles and I’m going to make some time to get started on the forums as well as some of the Storque columns on etsy.
The weather this weekend has been lovely. I put screens in some of the windows and opened them. Last night we even slept with the bedroom window open. We saw a snowdrop blooming in a neighbor’s yard and we saw some leaf buds on the trees. Yesterday the ice cream truck came down the street. I sure hope this late spring does not mean a hot summer.
Now that I have retraced Fiona’s drawing of me with a fabric marker (instead of the pencil), the embroidery is coming along much better.
Over the weekend, we went to the North Park Village Nature Center for their annual Maple Syrup Festival. They had a tent with pancakes, a few stalls in a little farmer’s market.
In the woods, there were several stations manned by volunteers showing different parts of the process including boiling down sap into syrup and tapping the trees.
The best part of the morning, though, was walking around the woods and the marsh in the bright sunshine.
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