I Am Still Alive

I have not fallen off the face of the earth! I've actually been sewing for a friend. So busy sewing that I can't take the time to blog about it in fact. I'm making a ginormous fluffy skirt, like a petticoat that will be worn on the outside and keep running into problems like:

• Not calculating enough yardage and having to go back to the fabric store twice more, only to find out they are out of the fabric I need, so none of the fabrics on the skirt now match (it will be "tea stained" in the end to get an antique look, so that part doesn't matter as much as it sounds).

• Being told that I need to have it done by New Years Eve and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because of that deadline.

• Not calculating enough lace into the picture.

• Not having enough time in the day to complete the thing. At this point, I don't even know if it will be ready by the 31st.

By the way, did I mention that I was only given 3 weeks to do this thing? An impossible task! After that project was given to me, I was asked by someone else to make a Victorian Walking Skirt like the one I have for myself. And I won't get the gal for a fitting until tomorrow...the 29th. Ah, impossibly tight deadines...I should remember never to accept them.

More to come, a couch cover, a quilted pillow, and a dog shirt.