Shayleah

I actually did manage to make some fall curtains for my living room last year and I am really pleased with how they turned out. I want to have 4 sets that I can change each season, and once this room is all done I hope to move on to making seasonal curtains and bedlinens for my bedroom.

The winter curtains are cut out now and ready to go, and I recently bought a beautiful butterfly fabric to make the summer set, so I just need to find the perfect floral for spring to complete my collection! :)

I have finished the pillows for Samhain and Yule, and they turned out really nice! Unfortunately working with velvet has been much more of a hassle than I anticipated! While the fabric is soft and luxurious, it shifts around so much when sewing that it is hard to get the seams straight. I did make a few extra pillows out of cotton fabric and they worked out better. I guess I’ll finish the velvet set since it’s all cut out, but I may make myself a second one in cotton.

I decided to switch fron iron-on transfers to photocopying the images right onto fabric and they look really good.

4 more to go!

I haven’t spent much time on 43T in way too long (over a year), and a bumpy year it has been. I have missed the comraderie I found here and the inspiration and encouragement that was shared. I hope to be an active member again and give back some good energy to everyone. :)

There has been much stagnation and pain in the last few months and many times I lost sight of what I really wanted in life as I was just trying to make it through the day. Now I deeply want to refocus on what I want and need (which I think is a common theme for many of us). And one thing 43T helped me to do was keep my goals at the forefront of my mind and make each day matter. So here goes…..