An apology

I'm afraid it's only four days into Me Made March and I'm having to pull out. Yes I've  seriously failed already. All of the clothes and accessories (and at the moment there's only a few) that I've made or altered are short sleeved, made of thin material or are in some way suited for spring/summery weather. So unfortunately mother nature has decided that this week in the North East (England) it will be frosty and very cold, so in other words not good weather to wear a skirt or short sleeved top. Typical.

On top of the rubbish weather, I have to hold my hands up and admit that I completely overestimated how many pieces of clothing I could alter or make from scratch in the run up to Me Made March. I got ahead of myself and probably wouldn't have been able to finish the challenge without wearing the same garments several times throughout the month. Oh well. So I'm offically declaring myself out of Me Made March this time but I will definitely participate again in the future, as I still think it's a brilliant idea and I enjoyed the laughably short amount of time I took part.

For now I have a couple of refashions/alterations ready to do and I'm making my mam's birthday present and mothers day  present this year (sorry in advance mam), but as she isn't very internet savvy and I had to spend half an hour explaining to her what a blog is, I don't need to worry about her reading the blog and discovering what she will be getting. I'm making a hot water bottle cover for her birthday with maybe some chocolates or flowers and I haven't decided what to make for mothers day. Any suggestions are welcome!

As for my party dress, I missed my deadline and wore I different dress to my neighbours party. I failed (again!) but the dress will be getting finished at some point, for now for the sake of my sanity I have put it aside and I'm focussing on my mam's presents, my refashions and a summery top that I have in the pipeline. More news on those projects soon! So to end, sorry again for pulling out of Me Made March so early on and bring on spring/summer and the warmer weather!

Hi!

Well this is my 1st post so hi to everyone in the blogging/sewing community! My New Years resolution this year is to learn how to sew, refashion clothes, knit and generally make things by hand. It occured to me over the last few weeks that skills such as sewing, knitting, quilting etc just aren't passed on anymore. It's such a shame. Personally I blame my school, I had a few horrendous textiles lessons that weren't useful or interesting and didn't inspire me (or anyone else) to start sewing at home.

A couple of years later, at college studying childcare, I had to design and make a soft toy for a child at my placement to play with. Under the much more patient instruction of my lecturer, I soon got used to using the sewing machine and really enjoyed it. Unfortunately I tried to make a toy rabbit with different textures for it's arms, legs, ears and stomach which was too advanced for my very basic sewing skills. I should have tried something simple but once I get an idea in my head that's pretty much it. The result was the scariest looking soft toy rabbit you can imagine and the baby I presented it to at my placement crawled away terrified.

So basically I'm a complete beginner but I'm getting my sewing machine tomorrow hopefully and who knows what will happen from there. I've been browsing some great sewing blogs to find a nice simply project for me to get started and I have a vague idea but if anyone has any suggestions please do comment!