off week

I think I'm having a bit of an off-week for crafting. It's perfectly normal for me to not have time to do it in the early half of the week, like Monday/Tuesday, due to my work schedule. But I haven't had time to do anything else this week either, really. And, oddly, haven't particularly felt much like it either. I did pick some scraps out of my fabric stash yesterday in hopes of making myself a new iPod case, and sketched out the start of a pattern, but didn't actually do any work on it. And I won't get any in this weekend, either...had some last-minute plans come up that are pretty much going to take up the entire thing. I'm thinking a good bit of it is just that I can't cut anything out-- table's still pretty cluttered.

Hoping I get my mojo back soon. And that the table clears off. I have some jeans to beat into submission!

Sometimes I just don't want to sew.

I've had people ask me before if I would ever consider trying to make money by sewing. Admittedly, I have gone back and forth on it, but when it comes down to it, I really don't think I would want to. See, I have this tendency to not want to sew when it's something I have to sew. Like, for instance, the pantsuit that I spent so much time on in December. I'm in one of those moods right now, because right now, I have to make those shrug jackets to go along with the bridesmaid dresses for my friend's wedding. It wasn't so bad when it was only two, but now that I have to make 3 of the 4, I'm beginning to feel like it's a lot of work. And it's not like I haven't done anything at all-- I cut out and sewed together the muslin over the weekend, and fitted it on the other two bridesmaids to see what changes need to be made. But after all the additional work that went into the shower (which was Sunday--and incidentally, Kaylee was a hit), I kind of need a break from wedding stuff! After all, when you're as single as it gets, it's just not healthy to have weddings on the brain all the time.

So I had the entire day off yesterday--wasn't supposed to, but we had some bad weather that prevented me from driving out to do my flute teaching--and I didn't sew at all. That's not to say that I wasn't crafty, though. I did a LOT of scrapbook work yesterday--got out the stamps and embossing stuff and made some embellishments, and I typed up (and even printed out!) some journaling, trimmed some papers, sketched out a few more layouts, stuff like that. I still have some work to do (mainly on the writing end) but I should have several pages that will only require minimal prep work before assembling for our crafty weekend. And since I was working mostly in my room, I also got to spend the day chatting with a couple good friends over IM.

I probably won't end up starting the shrugs until the weekend-- tomorrow is band day, so I have more work than during the rest of the week ATM, and I also have a flute demo for kids that I'm trying to get ready for that's on Thursday. But I've got till March, so I think I can allow myself a little procrastination. There's only 2 pattern pieces, it won't be that hard. In the meantime, I've still got scrapbook work to do, and embroidery to work on so I can actually sew that shirt, and pictures of Friday's reconstructed shirt to take.