I have mostly been sewing in my head, planning out future projects, fiddling about with this and that in the sewing room. Otherwise too much going on here.
Miriam sent a lovely small bouquet of flowers for Mother’s Day and the heady perfume of lilacs greets me whenever I manage to escape to my special room:
The coat fabric is still on the end of the cutting table, next to the flowers, and a ball of yarn for a scarf for next year’s donation box to Morse School. The baby sweater still awaits being sewn together. So much for gran plans.
Still, the flowers make me happy. I never minded becoming a step-mom, I figured all along the kids came with the territory and never resented that. I never expected however that I would come to love these people, adults now really, but still more child than adult when they came into my life, so fiercely. Not having children of my own, I feel lucky to have these step-children, and I think how luckily I am to have them to love.
The pattern for the Balenciaga coat arrived:
The pattern is pretty intriguing and I think it would be nice in
several different fabrications. I do not think it is what I want for
the multicolor organza coat however, not that I was counting on this
pattern anyway. I need to make a muslin, and I am still undecided
about the contrast fabric, but it will all sort itself out.
More sewing this week: actual rather than virtual.