Out With the Old and In With the New (I Hope)!

Well so much for my great ideas about if I started blogging I would sew more.  That did not work out as planned.  However, a new year is starting tomorrow or has already started (depending on where you live or when you read this).  So I am going to try this again.  My husband has tried reverse psychology on me stating that I must not really like sewing, that I shouldn't buy another pattern and/or fabric until I do something with what I already have....blah blah blah.  I still keep buying and I insist that I love it, to the point that it really is all I want to do and yet I never do it.  Is it fear of failure that holds me back?  I do have a Type A personality (at least that is what I have been told).  At the beginning of each year for at least about the last 5 years I have had so many great ideas, or are they delusions of grandeur of what I will make?  And they never happen.

Now don't get me wrong I do sew things but not nearly as many as I think I should and definitely not enough to justify my stash.  I don't do reviews on PatternReview.  I enter contest and fall off the wagon after a week or two.  I entered the Me-Made-Mondays on PatternReview and only completed two weeks.  Now in my defense I did not find out about it until it was almost over and then the last week I was on Christmas Break and could not figure out what to put on.  I mean I have a lot of me-made dresses and skirts but really on Christmas Break when I really could care less what I put on? So again another failure under my belt.  Now I am not proud that I have entered the fabric stash and the pattern stash, and fell off.  I have tried Me-Made-May three years in a row, only to discover I don't have enough me-made clothes to complete a month, so what's a girl to do but drop out.  Don't get me wrong being a Type A kind of girl failure is never good but in the cyber world it just doesn't seem quite as bad as it would if I had to face "real" people.

Earlier this evening I just read about someone starting a 52 week sewing challenge, where you create an item each week (starting on Sunday and complete it by the following Saturday) on Instagram.  Sounds great, sounds like something I want to do, but can I?  I guess there really is only one way to find out but maybe I should start out with a 26 week challenge?  Or as I remind my first graders, reach for the moon and even if you fail you will land among the stars.  So hope/plan for 52 items and just see what happens?  I'm going for it.  I mean after all what do I have to lose?  What will I gain if this works?  A better looking blog, sewing experience, and hopefully enough clothes for Me-Made-May!

Thursday, May 1, 2014 - Me-Made-May 2014

I have always wanted to participate in a Me-Made month.  Don't ask me why because I am pretty sure I don't have enough me-made items to fill a whole month, probably not even a whole week but hey you have to start somewhere.  So I figured if I sign up and commit to at least three items a week maybe, just maybe I will become more motivated to at least make a shirt or two to get me through the month.  It may not work but I don't think there will be any type of punishment if I am not successful.  So today I wore one of the easiest things I have ever made and that is McCall 6844.  Now let me warn you, you may get tired of seeing this, it is my favorite and because I am always cold it is quite functional too.  I also, made one in leopard, however, it is not quite as versatile!  I will also try and do better with the pictures but my husband was at work and I was afraid that if I didn't start today I may back out.

I have wanted to start a sewing blog for a long time but felt that I never had the time due to a very time consuming job as a .... 2nd grade teacher but then I thought all the time I spend stalking and reading other sewing blogs why not create my own?  I have been sewing off and on for many years and again because of my job/career feel that I never have the time and when I do have free time I feel that I should be spending it doing "teacher things" but if other people have careers, kids, actual lives and still sew, why can't I?  Maybe by blogging I will feel more accountable and that will make me more productive.  It's just a thought, so here goes....