This is my last day of holiday before I return to work so I thought I'd better get this post published today otherwise I can see it will languish...(I started writing it about a month ago).
Sewing
I plan to make more floaty dresses and having totted up the sewing patterns I bought last year (21), I will aim to use more of them this year,
although repeats of three of them (McCalls 7969, McCalls 7948 and Tessuti Felicia) will probably also feature.
I've decided that I'd really like to make inroads into my stash of gingham,
lawns and voiles,
chambray, Indian cotton and linen.
I may also feel the need to make something really bright...
Although there is no chance of me sewing all this up in a year, this will serve as a useful visual reminder of what I have! There is a possibility I may buy more linen, because (i) I've loved the look of many of the dresses other sewing peeps have made from it and posted on Instagram, and (ii) I have some ideas in my head which cannot be realised with what I already have. I also love that it doesn't stick to tights in winter.
I've already finished one dress this year, and will try and cut out a couple more at the weekend - I much prefer to do this in daylight - I find the shadows from electric light on fabric when cutting out disconcerting.
I am also going to plan my sewing so that I'm not forever changing the thread on my overlocker - it's not too much of a hassle, but I'd rather keep it to a minimum.
Knitting
I hope to only knit from stash again this year and would also like to get back to my Home Fires knitting project which stalled during 2020. There is a new book being published soon (I think it's already out in digital or audio format, but I like paper books) so that will be a perfect excuse to watch the two series (again) and probably re-read the two books already published since ITV pulled the plug. I've tracked down and bought a few more patterns for knitting which featured in the show. Two of these I've blogged about already, but didn't own them at the time,
and the third is what I think was probably used for this jumper, it's more similar than the other two patterns which I thought I might use.
Other than that, more vintage, probably fairisle or colourwork, to use up partially knitted balls and skeins,
and a few plain coloured cardigans and jumpers as palette cleansers from all the sewing in of ends that multi-coloured knitting generates.
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