Dearest Hive Needleworkers and Clothing Enthusiasts!This has been the most favoloso week of sewing in Atelier McMA, as we get closer to the date of the expo of my new ‘collection’: the mastery is slowing manifesting, the labels are being sewn into necklines and waists, and the rack is piling up with new items that I have completed!

Dearest Needleworkers and Friends on Hive!Ahhh, this has been such a breakthrough week!! @vincentnijman and I have had some progress – possibly myself more – in our Masterpeace remedy adventures, and my work in the McMA atelier has come along very nicely… Checking out my visit a few days ago to the Artemis gallery, where I could map out some ideas about our imminent expo there…. It helped me simplify everything, which in turn helped clear my mind completely and focus on the goal of showing my clothing to a larger public for the first time!

Dearest Needlework Community and Creative Hive Friends!My blog this week is about Finishing: I am working harder at completing garments that I have begun, and at breaking through the stickiest points in their making – like when it all begins to feel impossibly clunky and ugly!

Dearest Needlework Monday community and Hive friends,It’s early Monday morning, and I’m sitting by the roaring stove with a very rare mug of coffee, waiting for the water to get heated, and musing over the week’s successes in sewing.

The chimney issue had been raising its ugly head for several months, periodically for much longer, as particular seasons, weathers, temperatures, qualities of wood and moods of house occupants could affect the pull of the lum quite dramatically.

Dearest Hive Needleworkers and Friends,This week was rollercoasterish and quite perturbing in places – but throughout I’ve been sewing passionately, and this Monday morning sees TWO garments - almost almost almost perfectly complete!