Evening. In the language of my people, howzit?
The builders are still with us, the house is still freezing, the crazy thick jumpers are still very necessary but the world is still turning and it is all nearly over. I've nearly worked my way through the cut out pile, I've just got two dresses for the girls to make, and I need to take in the grey and blue Coco - it is far, far too big. Hurrah. I'm going to remeasure myself and draw all over my pattern, so I can make clothes that fit the new shape.
I made a Francoise dress, which is in the wash, and because I cut it out based on my old measurements, it is the right size on my hips and across my stomach, maybe a bit big, but much, much too big around my upper bust. I am actually swimming in it. This is frustrating in some ways, but massively pleasing in others, so let's not complain. I will take some crappy iPhone photos of it next time I wear it, which will probably be before I adjust it, as that will take time and I don't have much of that.
In other UFO talk, I made a Delphine skirt. This skirt has been a bit of a pain really. I cut it out around my birthday, sewed it up, put in a beautiful invisible zip and then found that it was cut wrong, and just didn't fit. Into the bin with it while I sulked. I removed the zip and unpicked the back seam, and got ready to fit it to my friend Karen, but then we were too hungover and then I forgot and then it was now and the weight loss has happened, so I wrapped it round myself and found I could probably wear it after all. So I finished it, and I've been wearing it obsessively ever since. It stands away from my waist in a strange way, but is the right size everywhere else, so overall, it's a win.
How do you like the badger jumper? It's fabulous and a size 12.
So that's that for this evening. All the weight loss, all the sewing, all the fun. Time for a single cashew nut and a magazine that tells me that tells me how old and fat I am. Night all.
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