My cat is unimpressed by this revelation. Holy cow, it’s the 19th of March. Where did the month go? I can’t believe Easter is this weekend. Once again, I haven’t pulled out my easter decorations. I even know where they are…

I feel like this month has flown by and that I have very little to show for it. I am suffering from my Dad’s disease of It Takes At Least Two Times To Get The Job Done. Take my sock for instance. I’ve turned the heel three times. I think the third time was the charm, partly because it looks right and partly because I refuse to do it again. I was working on the sock in great natural light and I saw beautiful colors in the yarn that I hadn’t seen before.

I also did some sewing for myself. Clothes, actually. I’ve never made clothes for myself (except for pajama bottoms but nobody really sees those (except for the people at Target and Michaels)). When my mom for the Great Gallbladder Removal of 07, I had bought a shirt pattern and I ordered fabric from the internet. And it sat. And sat. And finally I decided it was time for it to stop sitting. I cut the fabric one night and worked on the first shirt the weekend of the 8th. I was very happy with how it turned out, but it was big. This past weekend, I worked on a second shirt after making adjustments to the pattern. It turned out perfectly. Maybe not sewn perfectly but the fit was great and it didn’t look made by a complete amateur and to me that translates to perfect. Now what to do with the first shirt? Leave it as is? Toss it? I went with the third option of take it apart completely, recut the fabric and resew it. Yikes. That was a job. It looks 100% better but was it worth all the work? In theory I had made 3 shirts but only had two of them to show for it.

Well, Sunday wasn’t over yet (it was 8pm) so I decided to try a different shirt pattern with some of Amy Butler’s new fabric which I had cut on Friday night. About 2/3 of the way through the sewing I tried it on and it was HUGE. Take it apart, recut fabric, resew. Try on again, this time fitting better but looking like a muumuu. What to do? Go to sleep! I think that it needs some waist shaping and then it will look better. I also took out the collar and undid the gathering. I was rushing and it wasn’t up to my standards. Also, the pattern called for interfacing on the collar and it made it way too stiff. So I will try it without the interfacing. I am also considering another option with bias tape, but we’ll see. I am hoping to get the kinks worked out of this one because I have the perfect fabric to go with pants and shoes that I already own. I see the outfit in my head and it would be work appropriate for the summer. So fingers crossed that I can make this work. I just don’t want the shirt to make me look bigger than I am or with child as I am already big enough and not with child.

Anyhoo, it feels like I’ve done a lot but not accomplished much. Bummer. But I did figure out how to put smilely faces in my blog posts. Purely by accident. I think the WordPress Gods are having pity on me.