Well. What a season. Christmas has come and gone, the New Year is well underway, and I'm only just now settling in to cleaning up and cleaning out and declaring the intentions for the new year. Make no mistake, I'm working on the intentions already....just taking my time to really clarify what, exactly, it is that I'm trying to work towards this year.
In the project realm, that includes updating my "Make-Nine" list -- nine projects to focus on for the year. In 2021, I accomplished 7 of the 9, which included the extremely large project of reupholstering a love seat that we inherited from my Grandmother. Please enjoy the before (yellow) and after (teal).
In 2022, my Make Nine list includes a few roll-over projects from 2021: 1. Pants/Trousers with a zipper; 2. Re-upholster dining room chairs; 3. Scrap Quilt and a slew of other items intended to meet specific occasions or needs in my wardrobe: 4. Church dress(es) for me; 5. 2 flower girl dresses; 6. a ring bear outfit; 7. Something for my husband (can you believe I've NEVER sewn him anything?); 8. a new bathing suit for me; 9. New underwear for the kids in the next size up.
We're ten days into January, and I've been working already on item number 1. I've completed what I'll call my "practice pair" of pants -- Rust corduroy ginger jeans. I'm debating whether to size down for the "real" pair, which will be black denim.
I intend to slow down my fabric purchasing, and hopefully will be able to sew the majority of these items from the stash that I've been accumulating over the past several years.
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