The final piece: where I satisfyingly tick something off my to-do list!

So here's a story about an impulse purchases that took a loooong time to finalise. 

About two years ago, fresh into my creative journey, I bought some lovely silk jewel coloured yarn and started making granny squares with no particular idea of an outcome.

Son no2 liked the feel of the squares - soft and silky - so I decided I'd make him a cushion.  I felt that an old jumper would be perfect for the back cover and daughter No2 pulled out one that had sat in a rather large pile in her wardrobe for a couple of years that had perfect colours to match   Sorted.

I finished the squares quite quickly and then promptly forgot about them.  

My to-do list keeps growing and I am getting almost uncontrollable yarn-purchasing urges so I decided that I needed to at least purge my stash and see what needed finishing before adding more exciting projects (and yarn) to the list!  

I found the squares and spent a few evenings crocheting them together, tidying up the ends and blocking it out to get it straight-ish.

All together now

I was ruminating on what had taken me so long to finish this project and realised it is the same old thing - fear of getting it wrong.  As I was going through the process of cutting up the jumper and sewing it all together I could hear myself worrying about the finish, about making a mistake, about how it would look. 

My goal with Fashionably Slow is to establish a hand-crafted life, making as much clothing, food, cleaning products, gifts and stuff as I can from scratch.  Keeping the process as simple and as gentle to the environment as possible. 

I've realised that means being kind to myself too - otherwise it will just become Fashionably Slow Torture!

Cuddly Jumper Side

Silky Square Side

Mood Shot!