Over on Modern Retro Woman, I recently shared my grandfather’s wise advice to do the hardest task first and then everything else will be easier. This evening as I was contemplating what I would sew within a 30-minute time frame, his words came out of my mouth as I reminded myself that I was stressing myself out by avoiding buttonholes.
Remember this blouse? It is Butterick 5365 and I started it last summer when we had a Sewing Circle “camp shirt” sew along last summer (don’t forget that we’ve moved the Sewing Circle to Facebook). Since then, it seems like I’ve sewn for class and for Baby Alice but have not “made the pocket of time” to sew for me. And now that spring has arrived, I really wanted to finish this blouse. All it needed was the buttonholes and buttons sewn in.
So, in that 30 minutes, I set up the Viking, made a couple of practice buttonholes and then went at it. Thirty minutes later, I had seven beautiful buttonholes. And a huge weight was lifted off of my shoulders. Something I had been avoiding was taken care of within a mere 30 minutes!
Although the Viking has the capability of sewing on buttons, too, I think I’ll sew them on the next time we’re watching a movie. There is just something soothing about sewing buttons onto a garment. It is like the finishing touch, don’t you think?!
On the Docket:
Aside from the sewing I have to do for my flat pattern making class, I need to finish up a couple of Christmas presents….from last Christmas (sewing for Alice just threw everything off…but it was worth it)!
My mother called it “getting over the hurdle.” A friend calls those stopping places “buffaloes.” You met your challenge when you made those buttonholes. And you almost have a camp shirt to add to your summer wardrobe. I agree about the buttons. It seems kinda silly to fuss with sewing them on by machine.
Well, you are way ahead of me! I cut out a “big shirt,” last summer, then things happened and that was that. I bought the embroidery module for my Bernina 430, so maybe I’ll add a touch of embroidery embellishment to that shirt — maybe a frog or a dragonfly.