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Jul. 9th, 2025 07:56 amWhy as in, WHY am I knee deep into collecting the things I need to make my pet en l'air?
Who cares. It's been on my list for 7 years, I have almost everything I need (if not actually everything), why NOT get started? Just because I have no plans to wear it anywhere doesn't mean a dang thing.
Part of what precipitated this is that I've been toying with rebooting my blog on Wordpress. No one seems to blog anymore except for a few diehards but I really don't want to get into videos (except for a few topics that would benefit from a visual medium) and I still have lots to say on various topics. I can sneaky-log in to Wordpress at work (as sneaky as anything on a work computer is) whereas Blogger is tied to my Google account which I will *not* log into at work.
I haven't posted since January 2020. My therapist had asked me once if I had a blog because I was very passionate about writing and I had a lot of things to say. Sure, I said, it's focused on sewing but I don't have a lot of sewing to talk about these days. Any time I went to write a post for that blog, I just got dragged down by the weight of continuation. (Of course, thinking about it now, I COULD just pick up and move along exactly as if I was working on a new one. Well that's a consideration for future me.) Yesterday I started to collect some content ideas and the pet en l'air was one of them, which tickled my brain meats and here we are I suppose. Standing at the corner of "go for it" and "what even".
Anyway, the pet. Why did I even want to make one? I don't know, but when we were shopping in LA after CoCo '18, I bought silks for it. I picked out the embroidered bird fabric at Home Fabric first and then a lovely orange at the store three doors down where the owner treated us SO nicely we wanted to give him ALL of our business. That was right after my anxiety meltdown and about a month before I decided that I needed a break. I came back from my break almost 18 months later to my apartment flooding and COVID lockdowns. So... it wasn't a priority. I either tossed or sold my old pocket hoops and I did make new ones at some point in 2022 (I think), so that is taken care of at least. I also started the petticoat, where I have put exactly one needle's worth of thread into the side seam. I don't have enough left over for trim, but I should be able to make some bows and ribbons for the jacket. My plan was to seam it up on the one side and lay it flat for waistbanding before stitching the other side.
For the jacket, I'd always planned to use the Simplicity AD pattern. I've already used it and fitted it, should be easy enough to just lop it off at the length I can get with only 2 yards of main fabric lol. Now I'm wondering if I should refit it. Or try on the striped sack for an idea of if the shoulder adjustment I made for that one was sufficient. Decisions! Main inspo is of course Janet Arnold.
In other news I am having a little better of a body day. I am wearing the Scout dress and discovering how badly this actually fits lol. The waist is so big and feels terrible on my skin (my bike shorts don't come up high enough to prevent touching), the waist darts are so wide and too tall, the pocket openings feel too small. Just now I think I will have to take most of the waist area apart to refit it, it's SO irritating and I want to take it off and it's barely 9 am lol
Who cares. It's been on my list for 7 years, I have almost everything I need (if not actually everything), why NOT get started? Just because I have no plans to wear it anywhere doesn't mean a dang thing.
Part of what precipitated this is that I've been toying with rebooting my blog on Wordpress. No one seems to blog anymore except for a few diehards but I really don't want to get into videos (except for a few topics that would benefit from a visual medium) and I still have lots to say on various topics. I can sneaky-log in to Wordpress at work (as sneaky as anything on a work computer is) whereas Blogger is tied to my Google account which I will *not* log into at work.
I haven't posted since January 2020. My therapist had asked me once if I had a blog because I was very passionate about writing and I had a lot of things to say. Sure, I said, it's focused on sewing but I don't have a lot of sewing to talk about these days. Any time I went to write a post for that blog, I just got dragged down by the weight of continuation. (Of course, thinking about it now, I COULD just pick up and move along exactly as if I was working on a new one. Well that's a consideration for future me.) Yesterday I started to collect some content ideas and the pet en l'air was one of them, which tickled my brain meats and here we are I suppose. Standing at the corner of "go for it" and "what even".
Anyway, the pet. Why did I even want to make one? I don't know, but when we were shopping in LA after CoCo '18, I bought silks for it. I picked out the embroidered bird fabric at Home Fabric first and then a lovely orange at the store three doors down where the owner treated us SO nicely we wanted to give him ALL of our business. That was right after my anxiety meltdown and about a month before I decided that I needed a break. I came back from my break almost 18 months later to my apartment flooding and COVID lockdowns. So... it wasn't a priority. I either tossed or sold my old pocket hoops and I did make new ones at some point in 2022 (I think), so that is taken care of at least. I also started the petticoat, where I have put exactly one needle's worth of thread into the side seam. I don't have enough left over for trim, but I should be able to make some bows and ribbons for the jacket. My plan was to seam it up on the one side and lay it flat for waistbanding before stitching the other side.
For the jacket, I'd always planned to use the Simplicity AD pattern. I've already used it and fitted it, should be easy enough to just lop it off at the length I can get with only 2 yards of main fabric lol. Now I'm wondering if I should refit it. Or try on the striped sack for an idea of if the shoulder adjustment I made for that one was sufficient. Decisions! Main inspo is of course Janet Arnold.
In other news I am having a little better of a body day. I am wearing the Scout dress and discovering how badly this actually fits lol. The waist is so big and feels terrible on my skin (my bike shorts don't come up high enough to prevent touching), the waist darts are so wide and too tall, the pocket openings feel too small. Just now I think I will have to take most of the waist area apart to refit it, it's SO irritating and I want to take it off and it's barely 9 am lol
