This is my latest week in review...
Let's start with a Coronavirus Update:
I've been home since March 13th...and I've had some good days, some bad days and some days where I just wanted to sleep the day away. Many mornings I wake up now not knowing what day it is because they're all kinda running together...and I'm still sewing less than I thought I would.
Now this is not to say that I don't realize how blessed I am. My family is still healthy which I say prayerfully since I have two daughters who're considered essential personnel and they go out to work. One daughter is working from home more than she's out checking on the personnel at the warehouses but every time she leaves the house, I hold my breathe. The other daughter is the manager of a stock-out crew at the supermarket and luckily she works at night...though two people at her store have been diagnosed with Corvid-19.
I'm still working from home, getting paid and have healthcare so I'm grateful and very thankful for this! However, I have NO idea when I'm going back to work in NYC since it's the epicenter of the disease right now.
Okay some sewing updates...
Let's talk fabric in and out totals since it's the beginning of a new month.
This month 9 yards of fabric arrived in the cave - 3 yards was a gift and 6 yards purchased from Gorgeous Fabrics.
Then I went on a cutting frenzy and cut a bunch of stuff for a cut pile. This was before I was home bound and believed I would go back to work in 2-3 weeks. So I cut a lot of tops and cardigans to wear over jeans - my standard work outfit. I cut out 21.5 yards of fabric. I've made exactly three pieces from this cut pile.
I did well this month with balancing out my in and out totals. This means my year-to-date totals are: 24 yards in and 35.5 yards out - I have 11.5 yards more out than I have in during this first quarter. So while not great, it's a good start.
Sewn Garments ~
Like I said earlier, I'm not sewing as much as I thought I would...three weeks in I'm still adjusting. Some of it is that I don't like to wear jeans at home, I'm definitely a maxi dress, maxi skirt woman at home. So my cut pile is totally unappealing since it's an outside the house wardrobe.
It took me a minute to realize that I could wear my Myosotis dresses and other maxis while I'm home. Once I spent a week getting dressed in maxi dresses and feeling more like myself, I shifted my sewing and pulled fabric for more summer maxi dresses.
I've presently got two Myosotis maxi dresses on the cutting table. Since this is what I'm wearing and feel like sewing these will be up on the blog soon.
Other sewing things ~
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Lisa, the owner of Black Women Stitch and the podcast, Stitch Please recorded a podcast with me pre-Corvid-19 and it's now available to listen to here. I have a couple of things to say and yes, I rail about pdf patterns again. At least I'm consistent people! *LOL* I hope you will give it a listen, as well as listen to some of Lisa's other podcasts.
Finally, it's April...April in a time such as this... I hope you and yours are safe, that if you have a shelter in place/just stay home order that you're making it through...
...as always more later!
Let's start with a Coronavirus Update:
I've been home since March 13th...and I've had some good days, some bad days and some days where I just wanted to sleep the day away. Many mornings I wake up now not knowing what day it is because they're all kinda running together...and I'm still sewing less than I thought I would.
Now this is not to say that I don't realize how blessed I am. My family is still healthy which I say prayerfully since I have two daughters who're considered essential personnel and they go out to work. One daughter is working from home more than she's out checking on the personnel at the warehouses but every time she leaves the house, I hold my breathe. The other daughter is the manager of a stock-out crew at the supermarket and luckily she works at night...though two people at her store have been diagnosed with Corvid-19.
I'm still working from home, getting paid and have healthcare so I'm grateful and very thankful for this! However, I have NO idea when I'm going back to work in NYC since it's the epicenter of the disease right now.
Okay some sewing updates...
Let's talk fabric in and out totals since it's the beginning of a new month.
This month 9 yards of fabric arrived in the cave - 3 yards was a gift and 6 yards purchased from Gorgeous Fabrics.
Then I went on a cutting frenzy and cut a bunch of stuff for a cut pile. This was before I was home bound and believed I would go back to work in 2-3 weeks. So I cut a lot of tops and cardigans to wear over jeans - my standard work outfit. I cut out 21.5 yards of fabric. I've made exactly three pieces from this cut pile.
I did well this month with balancing out my in and out totals. This means my year-to-date totals are: 24 yards in and 35.5 yards out - I have 11.5 yards more out than I have in during this first quarter. So while not great, it's a good start.
Sewn Garments ~
Like I said earlier, I'm not sewing as much as I thought I would...three weeks in I'm still adjusting. Some of it is that I don't like to wear jeans at home, I'm definitely a maxi dress, maxi skirt woman at home. So my cut pile is totally unappealing since it's an outside the house wardrobe.
It took me a minute to realize that I could wear my Myosotis dresses and other maxis while I'm home. Once I spent a week getting dressed in maxi dresses and feeling more like myself, I shifted my sewing and pulled fabric for more summer maxi dresses.
I've presently got two Myosotis maxi dresses on the cutting table. Since this is what I'm wearing and feel like sewing these will be up on the blog soon.
Other sewing things ~
Lisa, the owner of Black Women Stitch and the podcast, Stitch Please recorded a podcast with me pre-Corvid-19 and it's now available to listen to here. I have a couple of things to say and yes, I rail about pdf patterns again. At least I'm consistent people! *LOL* I hope you will give it a listen, as well as listen to some of Lisa's other podcasts.
Finally, it's April...April in a time such as this... I hope you and yours are safe, that if you have a shelter in place/just stay home order that you're making it through...
...as always more later!