I've determined that trying to work a full time job and finish a dissertation is conducive to neither sewing nor blogging. That being said, I should also point out that I did not finish the SWAP -- I didn't even finish cutting out the patterns for the SWAP! But I am going to.
It isn't that I haven't been doing ANYTHING creative. I finished some button towels that my mother-in-law brought from grandma
I knitted a birthday bunny for my cousin
and I made one recycled sweater coat, and started another
I ordered some sewing books with my Amazon gift card xmas gifts, so I should be getting the Colette and Burda sewing handbooks, as well as the Alabama style and sewing books. I am excited about those. I have long wanted to make this dress
So, as I am finishing up the final editing of the dissertation, I find myself dreaming of all the free time I am going to have, and what I'm going to do with that time! Sewing new things is high on the list, as is selling all these unwanted textbooks back to the book store, and ridding my house of all the clutter that has accumulated in my frantic rush to become a PhD.
Happy New Year and best wishes in creative endeavors!
