Night Sewing

I have a secret practice. One that’s opened up my ability to finish big, daunting projects. It’s simple, but not necessarily easy to make it happen every day. I call it Night Sewing.

In the glorious hour-and-a-half between the toddler’s bedtime and the time when I wind down I do my Night Sewing. My husband queues up a show and we sit on the couch and it’s Night Sewing time! Hundreds of stitches a night at least.

My Night Sewing has become a compulsion, something that I’m not willing to give up easily. If you invite me out for an evening activity, it had better be more exciting than my current sewing project.

This delightful hour is how I've been managing to complete an astonishing (astonishing, to me, at least) number of tedious sewing projects while also caring for a toddler during the day.

If you have done any sewing projects in your life, you will know that a lot of what we bucket into the term sewing actually means: pre-washing, patterning, measuring, cutting, pinning, ironing. During the day I take a little chunk of time, usually 15-20 minutes to prepare so that I have a large portion of actual hand-stitching to work on in the evening.

It’s a constant echo in my head, “Do I have something ready for Night Sewing tonight?”

My Night Sewing has paid dividends, here’s some of the fruits of my Night Sewing labor (some of these, you’ve seen before!)

If I decline an invitation to your party, it’s probably because I’m busy sewing :)

• If you are interested in learning to sew bojagi, Youngmin Lee has an excellent YouTube and / or you can get a copy of her book.

• The pattern I used to make my shorts was from Friday Pattern Co

• The pattern for my apron was from Hey June Handmade

• Always interesting sewing classes from Tatter

• Silk thread for the curtain from Brooklyn Haberdashery

That’s it for this week!

See you next Sunday.

Bekka