Motivation

I love to work with my hands. Oh, you noticed? Well, I'll focus on sewing today.

I like making things for myself and others that are useful in some manner. When I started cloth diapering again with AJ, I bought candy pink fabric and made her a bunch of medium-sized diapers. When I was pregnant with BB, a friend and I went garage saling to find good material for another batch (needed small and large diapers). I try to at least occasionally make myself a dress -I like them good and long. I make my girls' dresses out of a need. It is difficult to find a dress of a good length that a child can actually 'grow into' any more!

I have trouble motivating myself to sew for someone who I know well, and especially for the males in my life. I've sewn my husband one pair of pants (cords) and a shirt in all the time we've been married. For my son, I occasionally make him a shirt. Perhaps part is that I just don't see a need there. They can easily find clothes to cover them appropriately, whereas the girls are often faced with wearing slips as dresses and/or showing their behinds when leaning over to play.

Fair-skinned girls, like mine, find it necessary to cover their skin, even in summer. That means Momma needs to make them light-weight garments with sleeves. I'm not suffering them alone, instead I'm making up my wardrobe and allowing theirs to follow suit. Wovens are much cooler than knits. A little elastic or ties helps make them fit, if needed, but dresses can generally be made nice and loose.

I'm not keeping points, but do like to look back and see some sort of production. So, I'm considering tallying what I make each month. Those days when I feel I can't accomplish anything, maybe it'll balance out to see what I did do.