New Year's Resolution 2012

I can't believe it's now February 2012! A lot has happened to me since I first opened this blog, and a big lifestyle change and house move (I've been unpacking for 6 months!) seemed to stop me in my tracks. I've recently been doing a lot more sewing, and it made me realise I should be keeping a diary of what I've been up to. First of all I made it my new year's resolution to tidy my sewing space, so I'd like to share with you a photograph of my 'sewing room', or rather, my itsy bitsy teeny weeny space in a room full of boxes! I know there are plenty of people out there who can identify with this though, as I found an interesting topic at the Sew Weekly sewing circle where someone was asking the best way to organise a small sewing space. If you suffer from a similar problem, you may find some of the responses interesting. It just goes to show, you don't have to have the perfect sewing space to be able to create, and to enjoy working on sewing projects.

I can definitely recommend doing some online research about sewing space organisation, even if it's only checking out the Sew Weekly forums - I could hardly get inside this room before I made it my new year's resolution, let alone have a clear surface space! I also learned a lot from thesewingforum.com, it's a great source of info about all aspects of sewing.

After doing various bits of online research for ideas on sewing storage, I put a few photos of ideas on my Pinterest New Years Resolutions 2012 board as well.

Design choice of the January sales

I love Karen Millen dresses and this was particularly hard to walk away from in the January sales. I would love to recreate these tailored lines but we're a long way from that just now.  I also took a photo of an embellished vest top, also KM, that I thought was extortionately priced for what it was. Sorry about the photo quality but you can probably make out that it's just a set of pleats curved around the neckline,with a bit of metal chain and embellishment attached.  Other than that it was just a plain black vest top.  Now that is going straight on our 'to do' projects list and I bet we can do even better than theirs!

Brave new year

A warm welcome to you from the twin new worlds of the year 2011 and Caroline's Sewing Adventures, my brand spanking new blog. Throughout the year I will be sharing my various sewing projects with you, including how-to guides and design features, as I ill-advisedly undertake a series of projects that are probably much too ambitious for my as-yet lowly sewing skills - but this blog is all about the learning process, which definitely involves making mistakes! Hopefully you will be inspired to have a go yourself, as I intend to show those new to sewing that there's nothing to be afraid of! Welcome indeed to my fearless sewing adventures...