Weekly Progress

Since last week was not very productive with only 2½ hours of sewing I had to crank it up this week. I started out on Monday with making a little blanket for one of my dogs. I used some leftover fleece lurking in my stash. Tuesday's project was a turtleneck from Burda Style. I cut this a couple of weeks ago so it is high time it got finished as the weather is getting cold. Well, as cold as it gets here in the San Francisco Bay Area.......

Tracking time...............

As part of my commitment to improve my sewing skills and spend more of my time on my favourite activity - sewing - I have started to track the hours spent. In the last week I have only spent two and a half hours in front of my sewing machine. This is what I have done: My daughter is a cheerleader and needed her uniform skirt taken in.

Cheerleader skirt alteration

The skirt is in thick 100% polyester - yuck. The trim at the bottom is a thick metallic border. Many of the girls are superslim and find that they need their skirts taken in as they lack the hips to fill the skirt. Remember those days? Dry cleaners and other professional alteration businesses charge a small fortune for this work. After my daughter had her skirt taken in, a few of her team mates wanted theirs taken in too. So all my sewing this last week has been alterations. I will still have to do a few more next week. I don't know about you, but I think doing alterations and repairs are really boring to do so although I have a few more skirts to do this week, I am going to finish two projects. I have a turtleneck and a skirt that are next in line. I know it is Thanksgiving but I'm going to spend more time at my sewing machine than at the dining room table. Watch this space!

Not what I had planned

Life never goes exactly to plan - at least mine doesn't. I had all these great plans on how I would blog about all my sewing adventures but the reality was very different. First of all I didn't get as much sewing done as I wanted and then I just never got around to blog about it. lately I have had a bit of an epiphany. It started with me reading this Victoria's blog: Ten Thousand Hours of Sewing I did borrow the book at the library but have not been able to get stuck into it. However, one thing that keeps popping up in my mind from the book is this: It says it takes 10,000 hours of practice to get truly good at something. I started looking at how many (actually how few) hours I spent sewing and realised that I was acutally spending less time sewing than I did cooking, cleaning and watching TV. Shameful! It hit me big time that I actually spent the least amount of time per week on what I enjoy the most! Well, that's going to change!