I'm done-Yipee
7 days before the deadline-Whew!!!
Goal # 14 - Sew a new shirt
I think the hardest part of sewing is finding a pattern you like and then finding
the material that will work with the pattern. Lorin went with me to help
me decide. As soon as we saw the material we both knew it was the
one to buy. I found a pattern we both liked and headed home to sew a
blouse. At this time I was spending a lot of time helping with my father
who was not doing well health-wise. It took a couple of days to get it
cut out in between running to mom's. I did get it almost cut out before we
had to plan and have a funeral for my father. His funeral was on Monday,
then I took that week to get it sewn up. It was sort of tricky getting the
pleats in the front since I had never done that before and I made the sleeves longer
than the pattern. Other than that I followed the pattern exactly. On Thursday the
16th, Lorin and I stayed with my mom for the night. I had some hand stitching
to do so I took it with me and got that done. I finished the shirt on Saturday
the 18th, then on the 21st we left to go to Roswell to see beautiful
Nikole graduate high school. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
My shirt
It is actually more the color of the one on the right, not as blue as it looks on me.
Maybe just in between the two colors.
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I had such a good time getting my goals done. I feel like I really learned
a lot, and did a few things I already knew but wasn't doing them. It was
good to take the time to work on my talents and learn new ones. I am definitely
going to keep working on the things I learned, and the things I used to do
that I enjoyed. and never took the time to do. Tish suggested we start another
list to work on when we finish this one, so that is what I've done. No time
limit on this one though, and it isn't 101 goals either, just some I want to keep doing.
