Threatened with the prospect of help from my mother-in-law, I'm pleased to report that I have actually begun to finish some of my latest (some, VERY late...) projects. I have switched bathrooms with Gavin, learned to use hot rollers in my formerly uncooperative lengths of hair, and launched fearlessly into my first hand-sewn project in earnest. I cut out the corset many months ago and have been making fearful glances at it ever since, until last week. I am so, so (sew--ha ha.. *buh-dum-dum*) glad that I did. It turns out that hand-sewing is EASY. Not only is it easy, it's EASIER than using a machine! AND you're not STUCK somewhere!

For those of you who know me, and I'm guessing you do if you're reading this blog, you're aware that I am the harrassed stay-at-home-on-the-go mom of a rapidly moving toddler, and toddlers don't care much for hanging out and watching mommy sew, or cook, compute, or anything else that disallows thier participation. But hand-sewing is different. It's small, it's uninteresting, and it's totally mobile.

More on this later, with pictures too!