Will I Sew Today?

Yesterday was marginally more productive than the day before. I had an interview with Katrina Walker in the morning, which was a great deal of fun. I knew of Katrina—I own her serger book and we have been at many of the same events, such as Sew Expo—but we’ve never had a chance to sit down and visit. She is a Washington state native and lives on a sheep farm outside of Spokane. We had such a good time recording yesterday and laughed over the fact that people tell us they want to be us because they think our lives are so glamorous. 🤪 Katrina hosts a fiber festival at her sheep farm in September and I think I might try to get over there this year.

I got in touch with our pig supplier. She will have piglets after May 7 so I asked her to hold four for us. (Pigs are glamorous, yes?)

After lunch, I ran errands in town. The weather couldn’t make up its mind. I was treated to snow, sun, wind, and rain, all in the space of a couple of hours.

Still no sewing. The closest I got was pressing some fabric. While I was at my ironing board, I selected a YouTube video by a sewist who specializes in patternmaking. (I watch YouTube on a TV through Roku.) The title of the video was “I Wish I Started Using this Patternmaking Software Years Ago.” Of course, I wanted to know the name of the software in case I wanted to buy it. She went through her entire intro and straight into showing screenshots without ever saying the name of the software package. I had to go to my computer, pull up the video on the YouTube, and look at the description of the video to find out what she was using.

Content creators!—WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW!

The software she’s using is an open source program called Seamly. I downloaded it and took a quick look. It has potential, but it is going to take me some time to learn it.

I am still pondering my mother-of-the-bride dress. DD#2 wants cocktail, not formal. Vogue just released its summer pattern line and I love this one:

I adore that color green although I will have to select a shade of green that is a bit more sedate. This is not a wedding for parrots.

I have to get out to the greenhouse this morning and get a few trays of corn and beans planted. After that, though, I plan to spend the rest of the day in the sewing room or the shoemaker won’t have any shoes when the weather warms up next week. You know what I mean.