In progress: JJ blouse from burdastyle.com
Well, I had to read the first step several times over a couple of days before I seemed to comprehend it. Then I still got it wrong (slightly.) It wasn’t too hard to amend my mistake. I also followed one sewer’s advice and did a fake French seam based on her how to. Thus sewing that one seam took me ten minutes. Progress is slow but I’m actually proud of me for trying to take my time for once. In Amy Karol’s Bend the Rules Sewing, she has a little section called “What Kind of Crafter Are You?” and I identified my category right away: the impatient crafter. Hell, it’s part of what I love about sewing - the gratification is so quick. So when I read Claire B Shaeffer’s Couture Sewing, and she talks on and on about all the hand sewing they do, and all of the basting by hand like 5 times before sewing a seam, I was like “kill me!” But then on my very next project (the Kayaki blouse I think) I basted a few steps before machine sewing & I think it helped. That book really helped me understand easing so much better as well.