Work and classes have been eating large chunks of time. Family stuff (complicated but necessary) has also claimed its share. I’m enjoying every minute the best I can, even if it is limited to Zoom.
Sewing: I’ve managed to make a blouse that fits (with buttons and puffy sleeves) and a linen vest (with pockets) that almost fits. As well as many, many toiles/muslins. I also managed to make a case for a wedge pillow, a baby quilt, and a lap quilt. I’m hoping to get back to more quilting, because then I don’t need to do calculations about size and ease.
Brief thoughts about patterns: size information is almost inaccessible if it is printed on the same tissue paper as the pattern pieces. Living with cats, there is little space on which to unfold the tissue pattern and confirm sizes’ dimensions. Once I empty a table of stuff it is claimed by a furry tyrant who wants to bite paper (or lie on quilt and batting). The Burda vest pattern 7769 is genius at explaining pocket construction and top stitching. While very nice, the vest size is off (muslin 1, in inexpensive dead stock).
I’ve had my nose in a good poetry book by Olive Senior called “Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems”. In these days before the mosquitoes come, when it is sunny outside, I’m sitting on the southmost stoop, reading or typing out work while watching the carpenter bees blunder in the air.
I hope you’ve managed a few good walks in the sun, taken a few trips even if only via good books, and found time to daydream about gardening and other hopes.