Rosanne was the first of you loyal readers to notice that I haven’t been posting much lately and ask what I’ve been up to sewing- and crafting-wise lately. Josh has certainly been making, and posting, a lot more stuff lately. But I promise, I haven’t gone permanently AWOL.
In fact, I started what I think will eventually be a really fabulous dress, the HotPatterns Metropolitan Coat Dress (the shorter, short-sleeved version).
It’s a great dress, huh? I’m making it in another fabulous fabric from Bolt—this one’s a smoky blue cotton with a bit of stretch (hooray for stretch!). I think it’s European, too, which equals triple bonus points, you know. I hit a few roadblocks (i.e. the yardage requirement on the envelope is very, very wrong—it takes about 3.5 yards of 60″ fabric, not 2). But, it was going along well.
I started this about a month ago.
Then I found out that my position at work is being eliminated. Which means I’m out of a job on June 30. This has been really tough on me because I’ve never been kicked to the curb before, and I work in the public sector, which means it’s even more unusual—although marketing’s always the first hit for cuts pretty much everywhere, so it’s not that surprising. (We’re facing budget cuts—the bad economy’s affecting everyone, apparently.) Basically, the stress of this whole experience has really gotten me in an awful funk and has left me feeling pretty damn uncreative.
Anyway, I guess it’s a bit weird to write about this in this medium, but I did want to explain what I’d been up to and why I’ve been so absent from Sewer-Sewist lately. When we started this little site we never in a million years thought so many people would be interested in what we have to say about sewing and crafting, and follow us so closely, so I want to recognize that loyalty by being straight up with y’all. Know what I mean?
Thanks for letting me share, everyone…
~sarah
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Sorry to hear about your job…all I can say is that it sucks. Hopefully you find something new soon. Good luck with your dress. I do have a question though…do you think that most of the hot patterns have incorrect yardage listed? Happy Monday!
I have sewn three HP patterns, and two have had yardages that were spot on. These were the Princess Seemed Blouse and the Jeanious Jeans. However, I have read that many of the early patterns were way off. In fairness to the HP crew, though, I do believe the first line of the pattern instructions is something along the lines of advising you to sew up a muslin before you buy your fabric to check both yardage and fit. So, I was warned.
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