For a moment there was a sense of peace coming over me thinking about sewing up this culottes and another shorter culotte pattern I acquired last week. For a moment, I imagined myself selecting fabric, notions and sitting down at my newest machine and indulging myself in relaxing creativity.
These culottes are going to look great in yellow (yep-just like the envelope illustration), black, camel or even a blue. No prints. Oh! the shoes: spikey heels, strappy sandals, pointy boots or swank hippy flats. Then the accessories: rings, bangle and jingle jangle. I FINALLY have time to do what I want to do! Just what I want to do…and nothing else…without feeling I’m letting someone else down or neglecting my household.
Not the case, because just as soon as I settled into this peaceful “place”. I remembered I have responsibilities that never seem to end-a feeling of dread over took me-I have to do taxes, fold clothes, load patterns into the vintage sewing pattern portal, hit twitter, visit my Facebook accounts, clean the refrigerator, scrub the bathroom floor, hem the shower curtain I made, give my daughter an answer about baby-sitting my grandson, clean the couches upstairs, move furniture I’m giving to my daughter to her home, church, write letters, finish the last few classes of my paralegal degree, clean house, plan meals, clean linen closet, iron, get ready for the gardening season, prepare for a job interview, clean my sewing room, finish the sewing room in the basement, finish the last details of the new kitchen, pay property taxes…
and like the Energizer bunny-it keeps, going and going…
It’s true. A woman’s work is never done.
I can’t catch a break, let alone start sewing some of the outfits I definitely want to get at.
Woe is me.
Butterick 5073
Sleeveless, slightly gathered culottes in evening length, have bias turn-over collar and self tie belt. Made in 9 pieces.