Perhaps I am a bit slow but it seems that the best intentions are often thrown askew by life. I was hoping to get more vintage sewing done this year; I really wanted to broaden my skill set. Alas as of yet that has not happened. Not that the year thus far has been a washout and I have managed to gain a few new skills - just not in the way I imagined. In the past two months I have made one ladies dress jacket, altered three mens' jackets. Altered a bridal gown and created a custom beaded and rhinestone sash. sewed and sent out the first gymnastics leotard for my niece. Sculpted 2 table top jukeboxes and painted the set for the theatre company I work for.
In the next three weeks I need to alter another wedding gown and two bridesmaids dresses for the same wedding, sew a custom designed Halloween costume, creatively dress four actors as historic authors - Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Clemens, Agatha Christie and Laura Ingalls Wilder for a fundraiser for a local non-profit art group, dye 67 yards of fabric to make the drapery for my living and dining room windows, strip and refinish the hardwood floor in my art studio (just so I can get the cabinets out of the garage before it snows), add additional cross support to my two story porch - and I am sure there are at least another dozen things on that list but right now I am feeling exhausted just thinking about what is to come.
