Hi everybody from not so sunny Norfolk
Back in the day I was one of those TSF members (Panto Princess), but life threw me a few curveballs which meant i missed this forum opening up!
Sewing has definitely been put on the back burner for a few years. Just before the disappearance of TFS, we were informed by our landlord we had to leave our home of 20 years. That meant a smaller place, we managed to get a small mortgage and buy a place, but no dedicated sewing room meant alot of my stash and machines had to go! I sent my handcranks off to charity in Africa, kept a few of the others (especially the treadle and my MIL's Pfaff 30).
At the same time I was diagnosed with an oveactive thyroid and Graves disease, which cause a number of different health problems for me. Fortunately, this was diagnosed before moving and I was feeling much healthier a few months after we arrived in the new house (I was actually able to move without pain as an example lol).
Then six months after moving DH was involved in a serious car accident that left him with traumatic brain injury, he is still slowly recovering but for a while I was his full time carer, so, I had little time for little else.
I took a job locally as a carer for special needs adults just before covid hit last year, so I managed to work through the entire thing lol. After nearly five years of only very small projects, I got my machine out at the beginning of this year and finally got some ME time!
I made a leather and tartan jacket (I had kept my favourite fabrics loitering in boxesfor years, the rest were passed on to the new pantomime wardrobe lady... my daughter!). Then decided enough is enough. I have a second bedroom that has bunkbeds in for the grandsons and little else (I think they are both post TSF so yeah, I am a grandmother), got some shelves for my remaining stash to sit on, then got a few other things over a few months.
I now have a workable sewing space for the first time in years and have been working on a tailored jacket, my Mother of the Bride outfit. The wedding was cancelled yesterday! Anyone know what I can do with a half finished tailored jacket in very expensive (for me) fabric, with lining in a colour I don't like lol
So thanks for letting me in, hope to chat with you all soon!
Bumblebuncher