I haven't written this blog for so long I had forgotten about it. Then, while looking through Pinterest, I saw someone had pinned one of my pics on Professor McGonnagalls robes. I took a look back over my own blog and felt sad that it had abruptly come to a halt. The reasons were personal, ending in me suffering from severe depression. I stopped making costumes, in fact I stopped sewing all together, and took time out to pull myself out of wherever it was I had descended. At this point I need to apologise to anyone that asked me questions or made comments when I did not reply to them, it was not me being ignorant, just me being withdrawn.
However, things are much better in my own world now and I have ventured back into the sewing room, if only to make caravan curtains, or an occasional foray into something quick and easy.
The reason it seems that now is a good time to start again is that the making of pantomime costumes has returned to my family in the form of my eldest daughter. After the initial year when the pantomime was cancelled at the last minute, it was resurrected! My daughter has stuck with them, acting in every production (even the year she starred as Maleficent while 7 months pregnant!) and is now part of the pantomime committee.
This year she has volunteered to make the costumes! Neither of us are naive enough to assume she would just be making the costumes, she will need a guiding hand from me during the process and it seems that this guiding hand may as well be documented to help others at the same time.
She is not the most experienced with a sewing machine, in fact the last time she touched one was over four years ago when she made the Victorian dress I wrote about in this blog. Neither of us are expecting it to be easy and as it is possible I will have to move in the middle of it, the whole kit and caboodle may have to be uplifted to her house at some point to be continued!
While we wait for new season panto sewing to begin I will try and post a bit to keep you up to date on any other sewing I may attempt before then.
Thanks for reading this, I feel quite excited about the prospect of mother/daughter sewing time, even if we do need to negotiate through two pre-schoolers while doing it!
