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| A window of jackets I made. |
Ok, fess up, who stole January and February? Time keeps on slippin' into the future, as the Steve Miller band once famously sang.
But you're not here for trite comments about the ravages of time! What have I been up to?
Sewing: I had a mending and to-do pile a metre high, so I attacked it - finishing patch jackets (now in the shop window above), sewing up gaping dresses, and moving onto some delayed projects like making pillow cases. And I'm now half way through an organza boa. It is pink, purple, blue, turquoise and burgundy, giving it a paua/abalone vibe.
With omicron charging through our country at great speed, I am working from home, rescheduling flights to postponed gigs, and limiting my social life to one on ones and the Thursday quiz.
Lots of friends have got the O, but nobody is really sick thank goodness, thanks to the very high vaccination and booster rates here. I don't have the luxury of time for being sick right now as with the shop tanking, but not enough to get a subsidy, my income is keeping the whole ship afloat.
Thank goodness for having a job, being able to do it from home, and being safe!
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| This is my life now, working from home in my studio with glimpses of showgirl! |
Dear Mrs. C.,
ReplyDeleteHoping that you are still safe and sound while the virus spreads around you all. Hoping too that its trajectory is short so that folks get out soon to your shop!
Doesn't that boa sound scrumptious. The color combination on abalone shells are mesmerizing, so I can see how the overlapping tints would make for a really pretty effect.
Hugs from across the pond,
Natalie
Hi Natalie! We hope so too, but this week we've seen an increase in people out and about at everything really. Hopefully this will hit us soon :) But we are safe, well, housed and happy so a lot to be grateful for.
DeleteLoving the boa - I clipped the two pieces with wonderclips to see how it looks and it's great, now I have to handsew them together as my machine did not like it at all. A nice job of just faggoting two piece of heavy thread together. I used the zig zagging over a heavy thread technique to gather them, which is very historical. Funny how sometimes the old ways are best! Much love, Maryanne