Crispy Fried

During my eight-week summer vacation, I only sewed one thing (other than the Tailored Curriculum samples): A Simplicity 2900 dress for Baby Alice (that is her modeling it for us).  The only reason I finished her dress was because I wanted to finish it before she outgrew it.  Her mother says it “just” fits her which means she’ll only get another one or two more wearings out of it because she is growing like wildfire.

I couldn’t bring myself to sew.

I wasn’t interested in reading the sewing blogs I usually follow.

Patterns and fabric I bought over the summer just sat on my sewing machine.

I was crispy fried when it came to sewing.

I’m sure you figured that out because there weren’t many updates coming from the sewing cabinet.

And you know what?  I think it is perfectly legitimate to give one’s creativity muscles and juices a break.  For ten months they had been working overtime despite Alice’s surprise birth and my grandfather’s mostly surprise passing (he was 96, after all).

But school has started for the year.  I am tutoring the intro to fashion course and taking both intermediate and advanced sewing classes.  After a two month break, I am ready to jump in and learn, learn, learn and sew, sew, sew!

Oh, yeah, and share with you all what I’m learning!!

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