It is 10:10 PM. I am really impressed by those who sew in the evenings, alone, undisturbed by their families until the wee hours of the morning. It is 10:10 and I am done with my tasks for the day. I think I am too tired to start sewing now. Of course I have to start cutting first, and I don’t think I have it in me to lay out the pattern, check it, correct it, get it ready to cut and then…put it all way before laying out the fabric on another day. Don’t I manage to talk myself out of sewing projects so easily?
Of course it would help if I didn’t have to lay everything out on the kitchen island. It is large, but I can’t leave anything out. If I had a table in the sewing room/office I could shut the door. This is a goal, but I don’t see how it will happen soon. There is no room in the sewing room for a table. If I moved the cookbook collection out, that would help, but that means I have to get shelving set up somewhere else. If I could move the office stuff to George’s “den” which he never uses except to store things, that would allow more space as well. But cleaning out and reorganizing the den is a major project, made even more major because it will probably require reorganizing of the husband before it can even hope to proceed.
I had hoped to get started on some sewing this Labor Day weekend. So far I have thought about it. I have done a lot of work in the yard. I have done some closet weeding. Here is a section of my closet. (You know I must be desperate for photo content.)
My closet hasn’t been this empty in years; I used to have two sections of skirts. All the ones that don’t fit are
gone. Most of the shorter ones were made this spring and summer, I
didn’t have any knee length skirts for a long time before that.
Life is not really so bad. We went up to Pittsfield for the first concert in our South Mountain concert series. I felt like cooking so I have been playing in the kitchen, turning out some nice meals. Too many choices. Too many interests. There is never enough time to do it all.
Sewing will come. Something else will be ignored. Should I start the summer skirt I still insist on trying to make? It requires a lot of cutting table work. What cutting table?? Should I make the little top instead? It is simpler to cut – well perhaps, depending on how the pattern looks compared to my block.
It is late. Perhaps I will just knit. No wonder I get more knitting done than sewing.
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2 responses to “Why No Sewing?”
Mardel, I think you’re wise not to cut out in the evenings. That’s one thing everyone needs to be at their most alert for. I too have been turning to my knitting in the evenings when I’m winding down, and my brain is too fuzzy to think out a project which isn’t already going.
I chuckled at “reorganizing the husband.” That just doesn’t really work, does it? How about a “temporary” cutting table of a folding cardboard mat with a rotary mat on top? You can put it on top of a smaller table and slide it to cut, then put it away when necessary.
Mardel, I think you’re wise not to cut out in the evenings. That’s one thing everyone needs to be at their most alert for. I too have been turning to my knitting in the evenings when I’m winding down, and my brain is too fuzzy to think out a project which isn’t already going.
I chuckled at “reorganizing the husband.” That just doesn’t really work, does it? How about a “temporary” cutting table of a folding cardboard mat with a rotary mat on top? You can put it on top of a smaller table and slide it to cut, then put it away when necessary.