My God, It's Been Two Years!

It's been an awfully long time since I did any proper sewing and this blog kinda fell by the wayside. I didn't mean for it to happen, it just kind of did.

I did make a dress to go to my brothers wedding, but the less said about that the better. It was bright yellow and I was at my heaviest so I can't look back at the photographs without cringing.

It was maybe a couple of months after that I went on a diet and started loosing weight. I've lost more than 35 pounds and gotten a new job that pays more, so I'm feeling better in myself, and I guess that's what's made me want to get back to the sewing machine.

What's silly is, I actually started trying to put something together back in November. It was going to be a Christmas dress for the gym's party. As it turned out I didn't have the time, and as I've been working on it it's dawned on my that at this rate it won't fit by the time I finish it.

I still love the look of it, but maybe I'll stick to stuff that's not so darn complicated until I'm the size I want. I'm going by waist size because weight get's unreliable when you add muscle into the mix, and I just have 4 inches to go before I'm the size that I'd consider ideal. That may sound like a lot, but I'm cycling 9 hours a week for the work commute so it's not impossible.

Until then I'm going to make a couple of versions of New Look 6944 in different sizes and work through them. Version C is only 3 pieces and I'm pretty sure it would be easy to take them in if I wanted to. Certainly easier than that dress!

Well, I guess it's a case of live and learn.