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August 30, 2019
OK - one caveat from last week. The first class for the French Quilted Jacket is on September 11th, not as listed before. So make sure you have that date right! Thanks.
Whew! Let the autumn season begin - my favorite time of year. The temps are cooler and it's like starting all over again. Guess that comes from so many years getting ready for school.
And as the seasons change I think about new additions to my wardrobe, not a whole new wardrobe, cause I have many favs that are great and I will use. It's also a great time to check everything out to see if there's a little cleaning, mending and such to be done to make it great for another season.
This brings up how to take care of our beautifully made clothes. We have spent so much time and attention on our clothes, that not to keep them in the optimum condition would be criminal. I've written a really great guide for this with an extra bonus on how to figure out what the content of some of those mystery fabrics that we picked out umpteen years ago, but work into our wardrobe perfectly.
Here's the link for this and it's free - you all always get all the advance notice on everything at a discount or free. So enjoy this and bring on the cool weather!
Update: Well, just when things were going so well....we're having some conflicting plug-in problems on the site, and they don't seem to want to work things out. As a result the site is down an probably will be for another week or so. There's a line of code that's missing and this means we have to go through the whole database to find the problem....yeah - it's like you have
one uneven stitch and it's causing the whole dress to hang wrong (which BTW never happens or could happen). Anyway, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, and as you can tell I'm totally frustrated. Especially since my creative engines are running full tilt.
But we can make a learning experience out of this. Cause what do I do when I run into a problem that I can't solve. I'm sure this happens in your sewing. I usually have a couple of irons in the fire, so I'm going to change gears. This means I'll be picking up another activity really fast, but in the meantime, what about all those creative ideas that were running a mile-a-minute in my
head? Well, I'm going to write those suckers down and keep them in my wonderful note book I have here just for times when the muse is running amok in my head.
I don't know about you, but when I hit a brick wall like this - having to solve a problem that I know nothing about (I know just enough tech to be dangerous and that's it), it becomes very frustrating. And it's just a snap, crackle and pop and I'm ready to sue WordPress, the Internet any irregular karmic convergence in the universe cause this is SIMPLY NOT FAIR.
Now the reality is that won't do any good....unfortunately, and although it might make me feel better to get all the frustration out, it really won't go toward solving the problem. And shooting my mouth off at WordPress and the Internet isn't going to solve a thing except making them not answer my call the next time. I'm really into getting problems solved; learning the solutions; and getting on down the road. I don't take stops like this
well.
So instead of getting all mired with WordPress and the Internet and the mixed up Karma in the Universe right now, I need to find a way to channel that energy into something more productive.
So here's what I do: first sit back and have a good talk with myself telling myself, "There, there, now it will be OK, and things will get worked out - maybe not as fast as you would like, but let's find something else to do that will help your mind stop dwelling on the irregular karmic convergence of the universe!!!!" So the very best thing I can do is write down where I was and what was going through my head. That means ideas, what I was doing,
where my train of thought was and where my train of thought was going and anything else that might give me clue as to where I was when the brick wall hit.
Fortunately I keep a few irons in the fire at anyone time, and after I let this go, then I can pick up another project, knowing full well that I have recorded where I left off and what the problem was and can come back to it another time, either when I have help, or when I'm ready to work through the problem or even tackle it all anew.
These brick walls are always part of an artist's life. The very nature of the artistic process is that we are constantly working in a new environment, even when we are working with patterns that we know - sometimes it might be the fabric we're working with that might involve different technique than what we have used in the past; sometimes it might be the print or texture of the fabric that will cause us to think differently about how we assemble or
cut out a garment; sometimes it's that we haven't done the pattern in a while and are completely out of practice. And then there are times when the patterns is new, the fabric is a newer type fabric, and we're working in a completely different environment. No matter what it is, the nature of each project is that it's different, and that difference can and often does cause difficulty is working with the project. Some may call this a problem, but thinking of
it as an opportunity to think about the situation a little differently offers that there is a solution out there, all we have to do is find it, and that sometimes it's a new fresh look and suddenly we can see what we didn't before.
The point is that don't let these brick walls stop you - well, they can stop you for a minute - that's sorta what a brick wall is. But don't let it loose your track - write down where you were - remove yourself (either to a completely different project or to a completely different environment - from sewing to knitting or gardening or calling an old friend) from the brick wall.
That said, I can feel it now - I'm going to be sending out another quick email saying the site is up and my new blog is up and it will probably be tomorrow!!!.....or not!!
 Hey - I'm always interested it what you all would like to know. If you have something that's bothering you (besides the hot weather and pertaining to sewing), LMK. All you have to do is simply respond to this email. You can always PM me on my
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