Sewn in Red

Once upon a time in college I started off the semester by getting ahead in every single class I took. Being a psychology major this mostly meant that I had read and summarized everything I needed to and found the designated number of articles to read on the weekly topics. This gave me ample amount of time to work on the bigger, semester long research papers that always seemed to be due in the same week as one another. My thinking was that giving myself this large bubble of time would help me write better papers. Was this the case? Hahaha! No. Having ample time led me to over estimate how much time I actually had for my papers and I still ended up typing into the wee hours of the morning on almost all my papers. This is what has happened with this Studio Ghibli Swap project. Ugh. I choose a very ambitious (for me) design and forgot to factor life and work into my mental timeline. Monday I realized I was never going to make my original pattern and still meet deadline (or the end

New Year! Alright, a New Year means I try this blog thing again. Life is a lot less hectic now so hopefully that will lead to more blogging! First Ever Swap! I am a part of my first ever Swap! It's the Instagram Studio Ghibli Swap hosted by Sew Scatterbrained and I am super excited! For years I've seen the bloggers I follow participate in swaps and all the lovely items they make and receive! Now I actually get to participate in one and I couldn't be more excited! I received my partners information over the weekend and have been quietly stalking her and hunting for ideas. She's a swap veteran and has therefor provided me with tons of information to go on and a super stocked Pinterest to scour over. To my partner, if you visit this blog: I'm sorry if my information was lacking! Please forgive this newbie, I hope to be able to provide you with more info over the coming days. But note I am super easy to please :) I have two ideas that are bouncing back in f

Three months into blogging and I've already broken my promise to write once a week!  But it's not entirely my fault, the universe seems to have been out to get me the last two weeks! A combination of work and illness have kept me away from my sewing machine and my lovely projects. First, I had two of my teammates at work leave for a week long conference.  We're in the middle of a giant redesign and we are the only three people responsible for design implementation support (technical talk for telling the developers and analysts what it's all supposed to look like).  Most of my working hours were spent answering emails and talking to developers.  I would leave to eat dinner only to return back to work when no one was around to bother me so I could actually get stuff done! Then, all that stress resulted in me getting sick and feeling terrible and incapable of doing anything more than binge-watching Netflix from the couch. Once I was finally able to get some work don