Home and away (189/365)

[white_hart]

I can't decide whether I actually find work more stressful and anxiety-provoking when I'm working from home in general, or if it's just that my two working from home days this week were the first day back after a week off and a meeting-heavy day before my three-day summer weekend where I was stressing about how to get things done before finishing for the week, and the office days were Tuesday and Wednesday and had neither start-of-week pressure nor end-of-week pressure.

Anyway, I'm quite enjoying working in the office, which surprises me given how reluctant I initially was to go back. It's nice to have distance between work and home, though. And not to have work taking over my craft room. (I have taken a screenshot of the picture from my office webcam, so I can use it as a Teams background when I'm working from home and confuse people.)

But now it's the weekend, and I am planning to attempt to make a swimsuit.

Comments

[lexin]

I hope making a swimsuit goes well - I struggle with sewing anything stretchy.

[white_hart]

I've been doing underwear in cotton jersey for a while so am feeling OK about sewing the swimsuit fabric.

[jinty]

Looking forward to seeing how it goes! What pattern are you using?

[white_hart]

Jalie 971, because that has the style I prefer (legs and racer back) and which is quite hard to find commercially in anything other than black.

[nineveh_uk]

Do report back!

[jinty]

I like that option to do legs! I can imagine that a swim cap could be useful too.

I have seen people recommend Jalie because they do such a wide range of sizes - the whole family in one, more or less, I believe.

[white_hart]

Yes, the size range is very large (though the downside is lots and lots of pattern lines, as the pdf doesn't have the option of layers).

[jinty]

I bet - but once you've traced it out once then hopefully you are ok for next time (assuming it all goes well the first time of course).