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… May was definitely a sewing month…
…although I failed admirably at making any semblance of a record, photographic or other, I think I achieved and probably even exceeded my Me-Made goal of 3 items per week.
… I made 2 items for the Burda sew-along, and a few other projects I had been stewing in the back of my mind for a while, but nothing since my wax-backed t-shirt…
… I certainly remember that I wore my turquoise Burda top to a rather momentous occasion on the 31st… an auction in which I bought an apartment! That came around rather unexpectedly, and was quite a blur. My present landlord has been telling me he wanted to sell the place I am living in for over a year, and when I finally told him I was interested, he procrastinated and never came up with a asking price. When I pushed him, he back tracked and told me he had finally decided he didn’t want to sell… I had a half hearted look at announcements on the Monday, knowing I would never find anything that I would like as much as this, saw one place that felt like it might have potential, I visited it on Tuesday, fell in love and the auction was on Friday. It is a 1930s art nouveau building and the apartment was occupied by the same lady since the 1960s, so it is going to need some renovation. I dare say my creative energies in the coming months may well shift from the sewing machine to power tools!
… apartment bought and I was straight off to Serbia for a week – teaching yoga at the relatively new Bikram studio there, and discovering a new city. Belgrade is a lovely place, at the confluence of 2 big rivers, water plays an important part of life which is especially nice when the sun is shining. I spent a lot of the time I wasn’t teaching walking, cycling, eating, drinking and reading by the water and enjoying the warmth of the sun.
… and last night I suddenly remembered I had promised a friend I was seeing today that I would make a zippered pouch for her sister… so out came the machine, some waxed cotton, some left over polka dot fabric, a couple of zips and an hour or so later I had a pouch…
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Thank you – a sweet surprise indeed x
Enjoy! 🙂
what a cute and practical little pouch! also hooray for accomplishing your goals for MMM 🙂
thank you, the recipient was very happy with it… I need to make more of them, they are so quick and easy.
I have chosen your blog for a sweet blogger award
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thank you, that is very sweet of you x
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Cute pouch! Are you a Birkam yoga teacher? that’s my new addiction (I’m on my 5th week of Bikram and already crying inside ’cause I’ll miss it for two weeks when on holiday).
Thank you! And yes, I have been teaching Bikram… I love it too, it seems to have taken over my life, and gotten me through a difficult time – and you know you can get the full class, given by Bikram himself, on 2 CDs from itunes and practice on your travels 🙂
Aha! That migth come in handy. Even though there won’t be a hot room full of sweating people to accompany me. Such a pity 🙂
lol – it is not often we wish to be in a room of sweating people 🙂 But I so understand you!
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