Positive Thinking
A few weeks ago I ran a half marathon. Last Saturday I was afraid to run 2 miles. Why is that? Is my mind really that powerful?
After the recommended "rest" period of no running, I start having this crazy dialogue with myself.
"You've waited too long."
"You're out of shape."
"You won't make it."
"This will hurt."
And the loudest one of all, "Just stay in bed! It's warm and comfy in here!"
I was supposed to run this morning. I didn't. But I know it's mental. I've just got to shut up that little inner voice.
If my inner voice only talked about running then I guess it'd be okay. But noooo, little inner voices are very chatty.
Have I mentioned lately how much I'm loving sewing? It all started so innocently and now it's turned itself into a small obsession. But again, I get the little voice.
"You can't make that."
"You'll screw up the zipper."
"That's too advanced for you"
"It'll just look homemade." (by far my biggest fear)
I'm not completely knocking the voice. Sometimes the voice can keep you out of trouble. Sometimes the voice is a voice of reason - keeping me in check.
Last night I ran across a sewing pattern and I fell in love. My first thought: "You can't make that." Why not? So I googled the pattern and found about 100 blog posts describing how much of a BEAST this bag is to assemble. I'm not being dramatic at all. Try it. Google it. Read. Be afraid. More than one blogger warned against significant blood loss from the amount of pin pricks they received. And the cost of materials is crazy. I could buy a Vera bag for less.
So...voice of reason? Or voice of doubt?
Not sure. But I'm thinking of paying the $12 for the pattern just so I can see what all the fuss is about.
Although I know it involves making your own bias piping. Did you hear that? I didn't even know that was possible. I thought you just bought piping in solid colors in nice little packages from Hancock's. No, no. Not Ms. Amy Butler. See the picture of her bag? HER piping must coordinate. Darn that woman.
My dear husband has agreed to let me take over the hall closet and turn it into a fabric closet. This is HUGE. No more crazy clear plastic bins in the basement. But it also means I have to be serious. If I'm going to take over a corner of the kitchen and the hall closet then this can't be just a passing hobby. I have to be able to making things with piping. Things that don't look homemade. And I want to start with this. Maybe it will be my birthday present to myself. I need a good summer project.
4 comments:
Just a thought, and I am not sure if the fabric is the expensive part of this: Amy Butler is definitely very cute and everything but she is very expensive. I have notice that there are tons of fabric designers at my favorite fabric store that have that same "feel" and for way less. So maybe you could buy the pattern and then go cheap on the fabric. And piping, come on girl!!! you make awesome stuff, you can make your own piping! If not, you can always tweak it and buy your piping. No one will be the wiser.
You got this!
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Katie,
You're right - her fabric prices are no joke. The cost of this project seems to come from the ridiculous amount of "stuff" that is needed. 4.5 yards of decorator weight fabric is the biggest chunk though. Followed by two types of interfacing with the same yardage and all the incidentals.
I did some online searching and found a site that had severely discounted some Joel Dewberry deco weight fabric and ended up buying that for MUCH cheaper.
Thanks for the pep talk! If I get this conquered then I know what everyone is getting for Christmas this year :-)
yay!!!! By the way, I love Joel Dewberry, and got some of his "deer valley" "columbine" collection. It is super cute!!! and no problem, you know you got this under control!
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