Blog: 2022
Loads to talk about this week, even though I haven’t actually switched on my sewing machine.
The dress hack I was working on last week hasn’t really excited me, so I’ve just let it sit for now until the urge to pick it up returns. I always try to keep a “one project at a time per craft” rule (a WIP limit of one, for all y’all in software engineering out there 👀). I’m moderately strict about it because every time I’ve broken that rule, I essentially end up parking the first project for months, and then I end up feeling guilty about letting it languish, and it’s a whole mental burden, and another pile of mess in my house, and so on.
Welcome to the first of a new series! Each Friday I will be writing about what I’ve done in sewing land over the past week - plus any knitting or other crafts I’ve managed to slot in.
I’m kicking off this new sewing series on a bit of a tangent, with last Friday’s knit club meet-up - our first ever! Ari, Jolynna and I have been knitting online together every Sunday for over a year now - with two of us based in Yorkshire and Jolynna based all the way in Australia. Celebrating Jolynna’s recent move to the grim north of England (welcome!), we consumed a solid number of gins and stouts and got raucous in my favourite local viking pub Valhalla. Throw away all your assumptions about knitters! Although I did have to go home early and then spent a few days in an introvert hangover, so maybe your assumptions aren’t far wrong on my part.