Today the weather was windy and even a little cold. I decided to focus on indoor things. I decided to fix up a botched sewing project from yesterday. Threads magazine had a simple pattern for a fleece vest made from a circle of fabric, such as polar fleece. I went to the local Joann's, bought some fleece on sale, then gave the pattern a try. I didn't like the way it looked on me. I sewed on a piece of fabric here and there and still didn't improve the vest. It got colder yesterday afternoon and I started wishing that I had made a fleece bog dress instead. I was torn. My gifted sewing teacher, Jacque, had said that it can be better just to start over again than try to salvage a project. I decided that I wasn't going to show her this project, didn't have much to lose, pulled the fabric out of the garbage can, and started zig-zagging the cut pieces together until I once again had a rectangle. I looked up directions for a bog coat, the simplest kind of coat imaginable. It literally is made from a rectangle and has only one seam. Directions are on the internet from multiple sources. Instead of making a coat, I left the front intact and made a warm long dress. If you look closely, you can see that I patched it numerous times. I will not show it to any ASG'ers unless I decide it's a good converstation piece. The dress is warm and comfortable and a reminder that sometimes it's OK to piece together things. You can tell I don't hang out with quilters very often.
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