Plaid winter wishing skirt

I have not fallen off the face of the earth. Yet... I've been super busy adjusting to graduate school down here in Georgia. This weekend was super fun with 3 days of work and an annotated bibliography, test, and presentation all on Monday. Today I have a project due as well. All of that school work left no time for sewing, it's going to send me into withdrawn, not a good thing!

I did manage to get a skirt sewn a few weeks ago. I know, I'm horrible at getting things posted. It took me forever to get a picture of it and then I got distracted (by homework, shiny objects, and perhaps a glass of wine...).

I whipped the skirt together without a pattern, not bad for never doing something like this before. The material is bottom suiting, so it's a bit thick and was a pain and a half to attempt to iron flat (let's just say it didn't happen in some places, stupid stubborn material). I won't be able to wear the skirt for another month or three as it's still 80 degrees down here in Georgia. I believe the skirt would be better off in my native Ohio for this time of year.

Do pardon the socks here, my feet were cold. I slipped the skirt on before I walked to class, which requires wearing socks. Why you ask? Because it takes 40 minutes for me to travel from my apartment to the building where I have classes. Yes, it's a long walk, but it goes by fast for the most part. I may sew later on today, so let's hope there isn't as much of a gap between posts. Or I may just have to start posting about what I'm learning in class. Anyone up for architecture history?

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As I blow massive amounts of dust off this blog I have to sincerely apologize in my lack of updating and lack of sewing. I do have a good reason for not posting in forever in a day... I swear!

The reason is simple: I moved. Across multiple state lines and 12 hours away from where I called home. In a place were a "cool front" is going from 90 degrees to 88 degrees. Not that I'm complaining about the heat, I like that. Seriously, that's not a cool front. A cool front goes from like 70 to 50 in a day.

Weather and new climate aside, I brought my sewing machine with me! I do have a projects in the works as well, but I have to totally take it apart and put it back together. Not looking forward to that, ugh... I'm also in graduate school and working, so that will slow down my updating and sewing. We'll see what fun things I get into down here, I think I may have to poke my head into some of the thrifts store that are scattered throughout the city.