Judith Proctor's Journal

 Sorry for posting so little of recent.  Mostly due to what is probably Irritable Bowel Syndrome, it isn't as bad as it was, but it still tends to affect my sleep, and makes it a bit harder to focus on anything.

also, I'm busy making waistcoats for the sword dance team.  Some of our kit did not come out well in photos, especially from the back (the backs of most waistcoats tend to be dark colours). So, I'm using a batch of bright yellow fabric (from the Dorset Scrap Store - which sells unwanted fabric, etc) and a another team member is printing the team logo on to the backs.

Fabric for the fronts is different for each team member, and is coming from left over fabric bought for other tasks, or stuff that team member 3 picked up as end of roll discounts.

It's doing good things for my sewing ability.  I can now do a reasonable job of adding interfaces to a garment, sew bias binding onto armholes, and bag out the front of a waistcoat.

Three down, quite a few more to go.  I'm focusing on the members who dance out most often, and the children.  In a few cases, I may be able to add a new back to an existing waistcoat, but I'm trying to make the all to the same basic design, just to give ta unified feel in spite of the different fabrics.