I went down the coast by myself for a couple of days last week and had a little sewing retreat. I love doing this - making a huge mess, doing nothing but sewing and the occasional walk - not cooking properly or doing chores or anything useful. It was too rainy to swim.
Some more linen three-quarter pants - I don't really need more but I'd had the linen-cotton blend fabric for ages so I thought it needed using. And I've worn them a couple of times already, which is good. They have a side zip and darts rather than elastic, very fancy.
Some corduroy shorts - the corduroy was from the quilter's donated stash (we were positively encouraged to help ourselves if we thought we would use anything) - and I had thought pants but there wasn't enough material. Corduroy shorts are a bit peculiar, but they've been great! I did a fly front zip and everything, so they feel like I'm wearing my posh shorts, rather than my casual shorts. This is my life now, my formal clothes are shorts.
The downside of the craft de-stash and sorting out the quilters' donations was this drying rack of shame ... a small fraction of the lengths that I squirrelled away without really thinking I was picking up anything at all. And that's not the half of it, I think I scored nineteen dress lengths of various bits. Slightly shameful, because I absolutely do not need any more clothes, but they were on their way to landfill, so what is a person to do? They mostly smelled like old lady though, so washing was in order.
And lastly but definitely not leastly is my first ever jumper that I knitted. Isn't it amazing? Thank you Florence for the free pattern, incredibly detailed instructions and the two hour youtube video that I watched on half speed, I could not have done it without you. It is 800g of pure wool so perhaps just for the deepest winter, but I am so impressed with myself, despite the many obvious errors. I was so impressed I got my husband to take a nice photo, instead of a mirror selfie.
I have bought a new pattern and some new wool is being shipped as we speak! New hobby unlocked!!!!
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