In a effort to be able to sew again without having to dig my way into my sewing room I started to organize. Then distraction hit. I attacked the pile of sweaters reclaimed form various places mostly by my mother June Cable. I dissembled them and organized them into colour groups in bins.
Then saw the bag of leather bits I got from Erin Templeton (leather bag wizard and vintage clothing finder extraordinaire). I wondered how my machine would handle the leather. My zigzag machine had a little issue so I got the straight stich one set up, it had been sitting on the cutting table not put away from Michelle Leone Huisman project (I sewed her butterfly together). The straight stich machine was fine with the leather.
So I made a simple glass case.
After that I put the straight stich machine away and had a freed up cutting table. Knew I had a swim suit pattern, reworked the bottoms and came up with a prototype undies pattern. Hauled out the factory waste merino and sewed up a pair.
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These days it is not just slow fashion but it is also a limited clientele, actually mostly me. I am thinking about maybe, possibly, in the future, one day taking my stuff to a shop again. Until then it will be by request (prepare to wait for me to get it together). Right now the floor is covered in paper from pattern making and fabric form cutting out. So better get back to the tidying up because heaven knows distraction will hit before I know it, actually it already has (thus the blog post).
