There is less than 1.5 hours until Teagan gets home from school. We now have three families in the compound car pool and this has meant that I only have to do four school runs per week, which leaves me with the bliss of a Sunday completely at home. Hence, today, I have some time to write up a short blog post!
Count down is beginning. The academic year is in its last throws with school production, assessments, family fun days and all of the business that comes. For me also, it is the financial term: tax preparations, portfolio rejigs ("sell in May and go away"...I then come back in November) and finishing off my "to-do" lists before Teagan and I head out of the sandpit for the oven baking summer that Doha turns on. So today, I am loading onto this blog three of my completely finished outfits.
But first, before the photos, the logical question to raise here (in Qatar) is: "why on earth sew clothes yourself when you could get a tailor to make them for you?" Easy answer, "because I want the skill myself!" Clearly, I have no designs on being a tailor, that is a highly skilled and practiced trade but to be able to see and make of my own hands is something I will never lose. A bit like time really, a skill learned is more valuable to me than money.
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| The inside of my Collette Patterns BEIGNET No.1005 |
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| The BEIGNET: using Liberty of London Cotton |
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| Colette: CLOVER pants No. 1019 |
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| Added detail using Liberty of London lawn cotton for the trimming: fabric was cotton gaberdine |
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Vogue V8507 dress (modified neckline by me). Sorry but I haven't done well on the photography so the sleeve detail
does not show up at all. Fabric again is Liberty London fine lawn cotton. |
