Middle of November already?\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Clich\u00e9 of clich\u00e9s, where did the time go?\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been a good girl, hard at work, and sent off two new articles that will be gracing the newsstands in April and June respectively.\u00a0 Of course, that\u2019s between the kidlets and Hallowe\u2019en costumes (Tiger and Luke Skywalker made out handsomely, BTW), getting ready for Christmas (two gifts down, seventeen thousand to go), and working on some new article queries, as well as a top-secret project whose details (fingers crossed!) I should be able to talk about some time in the New Year.<\/p>\n
But Stanley has played his part to perfection and the two patterns I was working on are finished and ready to be mailed off to the editor for her consideration.\u00a0 I honestly don\u2019t know how I survived without a dummy before this.\u00a0 He is so useful.\u00a0 I always start with a basic flat draft but he makes getting the details right so easy.\u00a0 I can play with appliqu\u00e9 placement, collar depth or the cut of a pair of pants until they\u2019re perfect and he never complains or needs to pee or decides he\u2019d rather play with his trucks in the living room.\u00a0\u00a0 His personality, I will admit, is a little stiff, (bah-dum, dum-dah!) but with all the upsides, I\u2019m thinking I\u2019ll overlook that flaw, since he\u2019s decreased the time it takes me to get a design from sketch to pattern by at least half, which means I can get to the fun creative sewing part that much faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Middle of November already?\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Clich\u00e9 of clich\u00e9s, where did the time go?\u00a0 But I\u2019ve been a good girl, hard at work, and sent off two new articles that will be gracing the newsstands in April and June respectively.\u00a0 Of course, that\u2019s between the kidlets and Hallowe\u2019en costumes (Tiger and Luke Skywalker made out handsomely, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}