Those Pesky Viruses

I woke up yesterday morning with a cold. No, it’s not covid or the flu. It’s just a garden-variety cold. I rarely get sick. This is the first cold I’ve had in over a year. I feel bad because I don’t want Robin to get it, although I had absolutely no warning it was coming. I felt fine all day Saturday on our trip to Missoula.

I stayed home from church yesterday. There is no need for me to be spreading this around. I won’t go anywhere today, either.

I drank lots of hot tea and took it easy yesterday. I even napped in the afternoon, which is unusual for me. I was not a complete slug, however. I traced some patterns while watching YouTube videos.

This is Burda 6610:

I bought it to make view C, the tunic. This is similar to the top I found at Kohls. If I make it myself, I can ensure it will be long enough. I probably won’t make the split hem so deep, but I like it otherwise. I am still on the hunt for some tried-and-true patterns for wovens. That old See & Sew raglan pattern is a keeper, but I want a few others. I have some nice rayon wovens in the stash that I’d like to turn into tops.

The other one I traced is New Look 6453:

This is another princess-seam top. I am still playing around with fitting that silhouette. View C looks like it would be plenty long enough, although I am not crazy about hi-lo hems.

I am really looking forward to that bodice sloper class at Sew Expo. Hopefully, what I learn in that class will eliminate or reduce the need to do so much experimenting.

I also ordered Simplicity 8169 off Etsy:

This is similar to the Burda pattern, although I would probably make the keyhole version, view B. I like the fluted sleeves. I tend to avoid fussy details, as a rule, but those sleeves are attractive without being in the way. No big statement sleeves for me.

The raincoat pattern may end up being my summer project. It requires five yards of coating fabric and four yards of lining. The Confident Stitch has some nice raincoat fabric, although nothing in colors as saturated as I would like. A hot pink raincoat might be a bit much, but emerald green would be nice. I am going to order swatches from Mood and from Seattle Fabrics, and maybe I’ll find something while we’re at Sew Expo. We might have time to take a quick side trip to Pacific Fabrics, too.

I ordered zippers for the Ravenwood bag yesterday. I know better than to try to source those locally. That was an exercise in frustration with the first version. Either I could find the color I needed, but not the length, or I could find the length I needed but not in colors I wanted. I usually order zippers from ZipIt, on Etsy. The pattern specifies two 7” zippers, a 14” zipper, and an 18” zipper. I found them, in black, although they don’t come in black nickel finish so I went with antique brass. That will be close enough. I’ll do as much as I can on the bag until the zippers get here.

These are all first-world problems, to be sure.

I plan to start working on the Sunbonnet Sue quilt today. I will make a practice quilt sandwich, first, to dial in the tension and try out some design ideas.