Sewing - Still a beginner

When I was sewing for my daughter I was churning out stuff so quick. I was new and was willing to try various things and fail several times. For some reason now that I've progressed to sew
for myself I want to know ways and to perfect things. I'm taking several online courses. There is so much I want to do and so little that I'm able to.
To think of it I still don't know most basic stuff, I've a long way before I can come up with something decent for myself.

Here is my to do list.

1. Draft a sleeveless blouse from the basic bodice for myself.  I'm on the way. I've a good moulage I made for myself so Ithink I should be able to do this one.

2. Draft a skirt sloper.I'm wearing a lot of skirts these days.. Bought so many from east.co.uk. I'm loving them. So I thought why not try sewing them for the summer.

3. Invisible zipper on waist with waistband. Haven't found a good tutorial yet on this. The best and most logical tutorial for the zipper on back from neck facing is this from fashion incubator - Such beautifully calculated for the fold of the fabric. I'd do it slightly differenlty though, instead of a different pattern piece, I'd just move the facing pattern slightly right to compensate for the fold of the main fabric.

Enjoy your week!

Preethi.

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Sewing with kids around!

Whats going on you think.
House move, had no internet - let's say bad or very bad internet and I still need to buy a sewing table. *sad face*
We have been alternating between furnished and unfurnished house every year. We go to an unfurnished house buy all furniture and either we have to move or the house owner wants the house back. The next thing we know is we have inadvertently liked a furnished house.  Give all the furniture away!
So here we are in the 5th house in 5 years in an unfurnished house trying to furnish it.

In between all of this chaos of house move, address change, packing, unpacking, you see this - Well, this could be either funny or scary depending on you!!

I had to control my miiind to take one direction - either laugh or scream and I was doing both - imagine that. There were about 6-7 flowers made on the guest bed with the pins(master minded by my son with my daughter's assistance) and as I quickly started to clear out I thought I could a take a photo of this.. I can show it to them when they are older, may be I thought.
There also were a couple of more eraser's full of pins that I cleared out. Now when I look back it brings a smile. Aren't they cute!

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