I'm in a bit of a slump at the moment, I've not sewn anything for a whole month. This is rather unlike me. Even if I don't finish an item I've usually pulled out the trusty sewing machine and had a mess on with something, but the desire has never taken me recently.
What's surprised me is that I actually feel rather guilty about this... I feel like I should be working on something. After all, I have so many ideas, so many plans, so much fabric to use... So what's gone wrong.
I have a theory... I think I have too many plans, that I'm drowning in them, or to mix metaphors, I just can't see the wood for the trees.
In the hope of identifying a seperate Birch or Chestnut in these woods of mine I thought it might be an idea to set out a few summer plans, say just four things that I can work on over the summer.
Two things I want to work on are quite similar... Skirts and dresses... All the girly things.
Images from Pinterest (my primary source for inspiration)
I have made so many fancy and dressy dresses, but my daily wardrobe is rather short of skirts and dresses I can wear to work, or just generally out and about. I particularly want more skirts...
(More Pinterest)
The knee length variety are the best for everyday wear, comfy, versatile, pretty. I have a few skirt patterns, my favourite being Style 1286 which I've made before...
Project 1... At least one more of version 1. I have a beautiful chambray sidelined for this.
Project 2... A colourful skirt to counterbalance the grey chambray one. I still need to decide whether to make version 2 of the same pattern, or go for a completely different one, closer to a circle skirt.
And for dresses...
(Pinterest yet again)
I would really like to try a shirt dress, made with something like a cotton lawn, but again with a knee length skirt. I haven't found a pattern yet... But I will.
Project 3... Source shirt dress pattern and cotton lawn (I suspect this one will be the challenge)
I'm not sure whether you noticed, but I get a lot of my sewing inspiration from Pinterest, and one thing I keep noticing when I'm browsing are the beautiful vintage style blouses...
... and I have decided that I want one.
This may seem quite difficult as sourcing vintage patterns is trickier, but the Pinner who added the peach blouse picture has used McCalls 5929... Which gives me more to go on.Project 4... Vintage blouse. I already have the cotton to use for this one, now it's just the pattern to find.
So these will be my only projects this summer. Here's hoping this sparks the sewing bug in me again. Thanks for listening.
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