Due to other
events taking over the last few days, I’ve fallen way behind on my orders
again. None of them are overdue or missed requested deadlines, but as one of
my main aims this year is to get ahead of myself and cut down on order turn around
times, it’s not a good start. I wake up determined, therefore, to find the time
today to get at least one order completely sewn and ready for posting- more if
I can manage it. But not until I’ve done the school run, listened to the readers in my
daughter’s class and finished my daily morning duties of breakfast washing up,
loading the washing machine and tumble drier…
Once again
it’s nearly lunchtime by the time everything has been done, and the washing
machine’s already demanding my attention again, having already finished the
first load for me. Washing sorted, I settle to some admin work over lunch.
I’ve got
some lovely fabric with a pretty balloon print, which I bought originally to
replace a strawberry print one I’d been using for a top and jeans set for girl
dolls. Although I’ve already sold a couple of the sets, when I came across the
strawberry print again during one of my online fabric browsing sessions, I
decided to reinstate that one as the top, as I always felt the balloon one was
wasted as this and would make a lovely dress. One of the new ideas I came up
with at Christmas is to include a birthday celebration dress in with all the
new seasonal and special occasion ones this year. I haven’t yet managed to get
a trial one made up, but now I’ve bought the lace for it- my nice cerise pink
one I mentioned previously, I decide it’s time to add it to the store. As this
will be a year round dress, I’m going to make it with long sleeves, though I
may offer short as an option during the summer months.
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added to the website, I sit down at the sewing machine to begin my afternoon of
uninterrupted sewing. Uninterrupted that is, except by reloading the washing
machine, fetching my littlest from school, peeling potatoes for tonight’s tea…
Whoever said a mum’s life was easy was kidding their self. Or wasn’t a mum.
After all my
time spent cutting out last week, at least I have a nice big pile of fabric
ready for sewing, so I can just get straight down to business. I’ve got a nice
order of two little blankets, so I start on that as I know I should be able to
get it made up this afternoon, even if events conspire against me once again!
The blankets are incredibly popular, and I’ve been making them since the very
early days of Little Dolly Clothes Shop, so it doesn’t take long to get the two
of them made and parcelled up ready to go.
Next up, the
other late Christmas dress order which, much as I love all things Christmas, is
beginning to annoy me- especially during all the dull cold winter days we’ve
had recently! I’ve already managed to make up the little pants that complete
the order so, in between interruptions I sit determinedly working on the little
red dress so that I can achieve my seemingly simple ambition of getting two
orders ready today. Despite having to stop and start several times over the
course of the late afternoon, I actually manage to finish the dress, just
leaving the popper and the button trim for hand sewing this evening… and
leaving me with the biggest sense of satisfaction I’ve felt for a while!
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