I won't deny I've been more grumpy than raving doll this week. In the last 12 days I've had 1.5 rest days, leave has been cancelled, we've all been re-rostered and I have been asked out for dinner by a fellow officer but we can't actually find an evening when we are both off at the same time
This job was not meant to ruin my love life
Everything has an air of sombreness about it right now, what with the terrorist attacks/the fire and locally we've had quite a few fatal road accidents, a couple of murders and several suicides. I was quite horrified when the coroner revealed that 1 in 8 deaths in Devon are attributable to suicide. Anyway, moving on as you have to do: the ability to shop on the internet did mean that I was able to buy most of this from Til the Sun Goes Down. They're not the cheapest - but then again where else am I going to get to spend money at the moment?! What I do like about them is that they do have some vintage fabric, the blue checked one is believed to be 1970s, 2.5 metres and will make a nice skirt I think. My favourite is the green and purple silk satin which will make a great vintage style dress. Going to be horrible to sew with though I expect ......... Another thing I like about this company is that they do a lot of quirky fabrics in dressmaking quality, viscose and other drapey ones rather than quilting cottons. Muv bought me the Simplicity pattern as she thought View B was very 'me' (it is) and I needed cheering up (I do). She also found a couple of metres of the brown viscose one in her stash and donated it to me for said cheering up, and I am going to make the blouse from it. Again it is from Til the Sun Goes Down, they have a very small pattern range but I've made up two others and they were fairly straightforward, the only adjustment I had to make was a small FBA and I didn't have to make the shoulders smaller which I often have to do with other brands. My sewing room is all done now. Walls painted, new shelves up, new lighting, roller blind, now for the rest of the house. It's also the cleanest room in the house probably on account of not getting to spend enough time in it to mess it up! But I will .....