Sewing shenanigans

I went to bed at a reasonable time, slept very well and only really woke up half an hour after my alarm.

I did try to cut back on distractions throughout my morning routine and was only fifteen minutes late. There is still room for improvement.

Husband was still feeling down and we talked over breakfast again for quite some time.

Then there were the usual morning things, dishes and such, including listening to more classical music. I really missed that. Did I tell you that I almost stopped because I had pulled up the wrong playlist? I didn’t realize and was very confused that I couldn’t find the right pieces and then I had to figure out where to listen to it and that meant I often didn’t really bother.

And then I went for a 1-hour walk/run. I’m very proud, because it was my longest yet (well, in this round of Couch to 10K at least) and also I got upgraded to 90-second running intervals. I expected to find those impossibly long and exhausting but, strangely enough, I did pretty well and enjoyed the whole hour a lot:

I came back home a little late for lunch but since lunch was late I got to shower before eating. My husband was making the brown risotto rice I had bought by mistake and that actually took 60 minutes to cook, even though he had soaked the rice over night:

This is said rice with a couple of other veggies and lots of romana lettuce. We have all the lettuce at the moment and my mother-in-law isn’t eating any so we get it in everything. I actually tastes pretty good as a green vegetable or even roasted. I put some parmesan on there after taking the photo and also we had a boiled egg each.

The boy even came downstairs for lunch which was very nice.

I took a break with some chocolate that my husband still had elsewhere. (In our house chocolate is rationed, so each of us has their own stash. If we did it differently I would just eat everybody’s chocolate all at once.)

And then it was time to sew.

I started sewing, started off with a minor mistake (of course) but made great progress until the point where I wanted to start sewing the skirt parts to the bodice. I looked at the pieces I had in a neat little stack and found – one (1) skirt piece.

Oops! I had only cut out the one piece, not two of them.

Well, no worries, I had been wondering, why I had so much fabric left over. So I pulled the cutting mat out again, unearthed the rest of the fabric, spread it out and saw this:

It was clear from the start that there would be no cutting of skirt pieces on the fold. So I thought I might cut two pieces and sew them together. Not ideal but not awful either.

Um, nope.

I had managed to cut everything in a way that there was no piece big enough for anything.

Now, to be fair to myself, the pattern doesn’t have a cutting layout anywhere. It just has a photo of how to cut the first few pieces but it doesn’t actually show you how to position the second skirt piece.

On the other hand this is the third time I make this particular dress and this is also the first time this has happened.

I have to say I found it very funny.

Now for some damage control. I could order more of the same fabric but that wouldn’t be here before the week after I needed the dress.

I could go to Munich today and buy new fabric. I could also go to Munich and try to find a new dress.

I went and ordered extra fabric because even if I can’t wear this particular dress on Saturday I still would like to have it as a summer dress.

I did some research into fabric stores in Munich.

I ordered some more fabric from a different store that promises delivery within 1-3 days. That might mean trying to sew a new dress in just one day – not the best option. But, well, two summer dresses are better than one, right?

And then I decided to look into my closet one more time. I knew I had another (burgundy) dress that I wore to the last wedding we went to. That one didn’t fit at all but pinning it to my underwear with safety pins and strategic draping made it work. I also thought that my brown corduroy skirt might work with a 20-year old summer top.

So I tried the old dress:

 

Turns out the dress that used to be so wide that it fell off my shoulders does fit much better with a few kilos more. There will be some strategic safety pins in places, I have black (or red) Mary Janes, definitely a different bra and I’m set.

Phew.

Meanwhile my husband had the friend over that he will go to Italy with. I only said hello briefly because I was so busy. Afterwards I helped my husband get a digital thingy for using highways in Austria. His friend doesn’t have a credit card or PayPal which makes buying stuff online a little tricky at times.

Then there was dinner, I talked with the boy about his upcoming presentation, played on my iPad, started writing this post, watched some C-drama, then did the dishes after the boy was done taking a shower, and went to bed.

I really hope I finally get to plan this week today.