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I haven't done any sewing for months. This is of course due to my recent obsession with knitting, but there's a reason behind that too: namely that I have been ill for a long time. Knitting after a pattern doesn't require as much thinking as sewign for me. And even when I modify or make my own knitting patterns the thinking still is a small part of the time it takes to make the garment. Conversely the parts of making a dress that doesn't require any thinking are few and brief: finshing raw edges and hand hemming. The rest of the time I construct the pattern, fit it, figure out which order to do things etc and that is very hard when you're too ill to have a working brain.

And since I got a cold one day before New years, followed by the flu, developing into sinusitis and then a return of the coughing and temperature I feel rather miserable. Despite this I hope that I will be able to make up a pattern and cut this fabric, a viscose in dark blue and green, to make a party dress. All the party dresses that I look good in are very summer-y, like this, so I thought that I should make a party dress that works for winter too (this one is more of an every day dress, though nice). I plan to make it with either 3/4 or elbow length sleeves and as wide skirt as I can get out of the fabric.



Let's just hope that I'm well enough to do it, maybe if I lay down for a while first.

Tardis sock

I have cut out the bodice pieces plus sleeves for my dress, but then the football started on the telly and it was nice to sit down and watch and knit. And I also felt feverish. So no sewing, but I have finished one sock.



The pattern can be found here.