Nothing resets me mentally like ignoring everything important and just sewing.  Today I made a little dress for a pretty toddler I know.  I turned an ill-fitting summer dress into a top and skirt, I refashioned two button up shirts into spring blouses, I made a wrap skirt that wouldn’t stay shut into a dirndl skirt and I made a new waistband for the skirt I made last week.  Most exciting was the appliques on the toddler dress and pintucks!!!  I made pintucks.  I’m super excited, I put seven rows of them on the front of one of the blouses instead of darts.  They are hard to see unless you are up close but I am very pleased with them as decorative details.  I suspect there will be many pintucks in my future. There are pictures here (the last 11 pics are the new stuff).

Now I am utterly exhausted. Though not just from sewing.  From everything.  It’s storming again.  I am too tired to say much other than food good.  Bed better.  Tonight hopefully I will sleep long and hard and not have hideous and disturbing dreams like I did last night.