To SWAP or NOT TO SWAP…..

Oh, almost forgot….

Been thinking about this over the last few months and I am trying to decide if I should enter a SWAP (sewing with a plan) contest. Stitcher’s Guild has one in progress right now (tried to link to it) (11/1/08-4/30/09) where you make 11 items based on a week in your real life. The items are as follows: 4 bottoms (skirts, jeans, trousers), 6 tops (t-shirts, shirts, blouses, camisoles), 1 jacket (tailored blazer, jeans-style jacket, sweater, or shawl or it can be a coat). All items must be able to be worn together…so all matchy-matchy-ish or another way to look at it – a week’s worth of outfits.

I love the idea BUT….there is always a BUT…not sure I’ll stay focused long enough to meet the deadline. I have SO much I want to do. I still need hours and hours of play on my new Bernina 830 and I signed up for block of the month again this year but decided that I needed two colorways to work on instead of just one.

So that’s 2 blocks per month that have to get done along with trying to come up with patterns for all the fabric I just HAD TO BUY while in Europe!! I know…poor me. One suitcase was crammed full and overweight….it was almost 60 lbs of fabric. Of course that wasn’t all of it…we had to pack some in another suitcase, well, because we couldn’t get it all in one.

Will post pics soon….still on the camera….must find camera…..