It's Been A Minute

I started January off so strong!  I blogged several outfits, wrote some draft blog posts for two shirts I was working on and then nothing. I literally stopped sewing again...but this time for a couple of reasons:

1. Working on the shirts and getting them to look like I wanted was hard.  The sewing didn't come easy to me and I wondered if I had lost my touch.  Then I got to the part where it was time to add the buttons and buttonholes and I really stopped.  Like months later both shirts need buttons and buttonholes. Hopefully I will get my act together and get them added.

2. I've managed to lose 40 lbs. My primary care physician has made it her mission to get me back to good health.  Along with good health has come weight loss because regardless of what I wanted to believe, losing weight did affect my body's systems.  As you know I had a health crisis in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic, and I resigned myself to the weight gain.  Hey I was still alive and I could sew pretty things to cover the weight gain so I was good. But being 40 lbs lighter has really realigned everything and I do feel better daily.

3.  However, the weight loss has really triggered me on a couple of levels.  Not only do I not have a desire to sew, because all of the clothes I was too lazy to get rid of now fit.  But even though I can see the body changes, I still feel fat. I'm not sure if it's that I think I should look thinner than I am or if I don't see enough change in my body.  To be completely honest, the whole thing trips me out. I've never really cared much about how "fat" I presented. So this new thought process is hard for me.

Anyway, I'm not sewing.  I own so many clothes in several sizes that I'm looking for holes to fill to sew some of the fabric that I'm still accumulating.  Accumulating at a much slower rate because I didn't buy fabric from January until just recently. But it is 10 pieces of additional fabric that's just sitting...

So why am I posting, because I did find some well loved pieces over the last several months, that I've been wearing again.  I wanted to share a few candid photos with you of garments I've worn over the last couple of months for the first time in years...

Jacket made in 2016.  Haven't worn since before Covid.

Cardigan made in 2017

Blouse made in 2017

Sienna Maker Vest made in 2019.

Me giving a presentation at work in a jacket made in 2019.

Formal Myostis made in 2019.

Basically, wearing all my pre-Covid clothes that I saved when I moved in 2020.  So, what do I want to make for summer?  Easy things...a couple of Cashmerette t-shirt dresses (since everything I previously made didn't survive), a duster or two, maybe a Style Arc Nova because I have some amazing rayon challis', and a button front straight dress.  Not a lot.  Though I'm mourning the dresses I made last summer, they're way too big now and besides a fix for the 2 myostis dresses, I don't have a fix yet for the others.

Hopefully, I will get the two shirts I started finished and shared here.  Also, hopefully, I will get a few more t-shirt dresses added to the closet. I'm still only working 2 days a week in NYC so I have plenty to wear!

Just an update before my 66th birthday occurs!  Can't believe I'm here at this age...

...as always more later!