I started taking sewing lessons last week and I love it! Especially after I spent quite a bit of time last weekend (while M was on a boys only canoe trip) just learning to sew straight lines. The sewing course I am taking is offered at the sweetest little sewing studio in Strathcona called Haute Kootoor which has an excellent variety of sewing classes offered on a very regular schedule. I am just taking the beginner class, but am considering more when I get time as it’s been great. A nice small class of just four students which means a lot of hands on instruction, which is something I really appreciate when learning a new skill.

Coincidentally the instructor is a very cool friend of a friend I have met a few times before and the project we are working on is a skirt pattern I had already bought as part of my Amy Butler obsession - the Barcelona skirt. We are doing the A line version but I am keen to follow it up with the apron overlay soon.

My sewing attempts were much more successful this week due to not being as hopped up on painkillers and antibiotics as I was last week after a wee relapse of an annoying condition I’ve had lately. This resulted in the beginnings of a damn cute skirt (if I do say so myself) using some on hand fabric from my stash that I had intended for a skirt even prior to starting the class - Amy Butler’s Coral Star Paisley from the Lotus Collection:

I have a full on sewing bug now. One (and only one) good thing about having no power tonight (day two of the Vancouver power outage) is that I can’t play around with my sewing since I really need to finish knitting that baby blankie I am doing on commission first. It’s so hard to be disciplined when I have so many pretty things to make!