An Easy Basic

Today this is just a quick post it has been a bit of a lazy day today, my me made may 2020 day 23 dress is an example of a quick make with a few details.  A favourite style of dress to make, loose, elasticated waist and turn ups on the sleeves.
I may have mentioned before that find the correct placement of elastic I either put the dress on the mannequin or on me then slip the elastic over the top, once it is on you can manoeuvre to just the right place then pin it in position.  It is a good idea to find the side seams and centre front and back then you can arrange the rest from there.  I have added a red belt just to cheer it up a bit.

There is such a lot of mess on  that sewing table behind  me I think I am just in front of it, ha! Well if you are  too tidy how can you create?  That is my excuse anyway.

I had another look at the burda subscriptions today, my husband said get one if you like why do you talk yourself out of things.  We found on their site it was £71 for the year for twelve copies,  (which is still a lot of money, but as a gift) however on clicking it to the basket it went up to £96 they want to charge £25 for postage!  The whole idea of a subscription is they deliver it and I have never seen this added on a magazine subscription before.  I decided to leave it.  Then on another site my husband found three copies delivered for £22 pound.  I have gone for that, at least this way I can see how I like it.

Earlier on I was looking at sewing room ideas, I put in small sewing spaces on pinterest then youtube you should see the size of these rooms, people must live in mansions to devote that much space to sewing!  I think the search engine had completely ignored the word small. I currently have a desk as you see above (top right of my title bar) with lots of stuff pile on and around it.

Tomorrow I am off to the shops (food shopping of course) I am going to try and plan it a bit better this week as I don't know if it is just me but my shopping bill has been up for weeks? Now I always cook at home so it is not that but I think prices may have crept up in general and due to lockdown and the whole get in get out of the supermarket mentality maybe we are overlooking this.  I could be over paranoid about this but before I always took good care to get the best prices because as something we do every week this is an easy way to save.  

That's all for now, stay safe.