LOST

It seems like that is what happened to last week.  I had plans.  I got lost.  Here we are in a new week and I am exactly where I was and the time is gone forever.

I had planned to cut and sew a simple top from one of the Burda Magazines.  In my head I thought it was January 2007, but it was not.  I finally found it in the December 2006 issue.  Of course I had hidden the December issue in a stack of fabric (in anticipation of cutting perhaps?) and so the search took longer than necessary.

This is the top:

It is pretty simple and even I should be able to produce this pretty quickly.  I am not that good at knits yet, and I can’t tell by looking if this pattern or shape will fit, so there will be at least one "muslin" in some kind of inexpensive knit.  This doesn’t bother me.  I can’t tell in a store either which tops will look fabulous and which will look just terrible.  With knits, the apparently subtle differences in cut and the stretch and drape of the fabrics all seem to make a difference.

Or perhaps I am just difficult.

At any rate, finally got the pattern traced and cut:

Now I at least have somethng to work with. 

It is not that late, only after 10, but I am still suffering a little residual exhaustion from last week.  Or perhaps I have just lost that will to drive myself to exhaustion.  If I were ready for some actual sewing perhaps I would just leap right in.  With cutting out, even on knits, or especially on knits as they tend to have minds of their own and cling to themselves when I least expect it, cutting late at night is not a good idea.

Besides, I am obsessed with getting a little further on a knitting project.