Happy Día de los Reyes (Three Kings’ Day), everybody! Apparently Argentine children get an extra present on the morning of the 6th of January AND CAKE. Wish I had realised earlier. I mean, I had a biscuit for breakfast but it would have been nice to feel like it was a legitimately festive biscuit.
I’m not going to make any foolish New Year promises or even look back on what has been a fairly inconsistent year for me, blog-wise (just pretend you didn’t notice, thank youuuu), but I will make one resolution: to finish my fashion degree. Yes, in the end I put off my design exam, so I only have to pass one module – should be fairly simple, RIGHT? Have I cursed myself now? After that, I might think about working towards actually making something from all of the worthwhile fabric in my stash before we move back to the UK. I feel like moving a lot of clothes is somehow less insane than moving large amounts of fabric, though there is no real logic to that thought.
The only festive sewing I did this year was to make Christmas stockings for Amy, an old friend of mine who visited over Christmas, and Simon. We spent a couple of days on the Tigre Delta and it was beautiful: lots of nature and swimming in the river. So now it’s back to drawing millions of tiny rectangles for the sketches for my final collection and back to feeling like my brain is on a slow boil, and not in a good way. The heat wave doesn’t seem to be going away; in fact it has turned into an endless heat ocean in which I am drowning.
Of course I got some wonderful sewing presents, too – two MASSIVE lengths of beautiful African wax print fabric from Amy, and a copy of Fashion A to Z: An Illustrated Dictionary from Issy (I’ll try to write about that for my Sewing Library series).
Aaaaand this week I started making a quilt! Not really the right kind of productive, but I’m finding it a wonderfully relaxing way to get back into sewing. As all sewers know, you have to enjoy repetitive and almost boring manual tasks to really enjoy sewing, and I find (so far) that quilting is a magnification of that. Of course, my blocks are absolutely massive because I’m not sure I’ve got the patience yet for sewing all of those tiny squares. Not for as long as the drawing of tiny rectangles continues, at least. Happy 2014, everyone!
