A Message from the Universe

When life tries to tell you something, listen.

With Obstacles one and two, I thought I just needed to press on regardless. Obstacle three smacked me upside the head and I finally paid attention.

This is where I’d got to. (Things look just a tiny bit different now, but you’ll see that in a later post).

Obstacle one was Higgins deciding that my paper pattern was a delicious treat I was withholding from him, and he was going to chew chunks out of it. ‘The dog ate my homework’. Literally. But seriously, it wasn’t that bad, and after hearing the rustling and hurtling around the corner of my work table to see him mauling my hard work, I managed to rescue it before anything terminal happened. It’s patched and a bit soggy in places but still perfectly usable.

Obstacle two was the overlocker (serger) unthreading itself again, and again, and again. I finally got it going once more, and zoomed up the second front dart (hidden under the outer pin tuck on the bodice front).

And that’s when Obstacle three made itself known. I’d been so preoccupied with getting the dratted edge finished off that I’d failed to notice I’d had the corner of the neck opening tucked under. I’d sliced a good inch off the corner. It had all been going too well…

People, I listened, finally. It was time to call it a day.

Having conceded defeat, the Universe permitted me to rescue the situation. I added a ‘feature’ patch to even up the chopped off corner. I will be adding a button to make it look more purposeful, and a loop on the other side. Neither of them needed, but we do what we must.

Tomorrow, I shall be gathering the centre part of the back, then stitching on the back yoke. If no more thunderbolts are sent from above, I might try and join front to back at the shoulders and maybe, just maybe, let in the sleeve heads.

Watch this space. I’ll try to avoid bloodshed.