last minute mending

while packing for foreign parts

i discovered that my favourite silkymerino skirt

had worn rather thin

was letting daylight into where the sun should not shine

and had also become shorter

not through shrinkage

but because parts of me have gone sideways

which

is a little embarrassing.

because

as you know

and to paraphrase A.A.Milne

"a bear, however hard she tries, grows tubby without exercise"

and i seem to have reached the age where 

three times as much exercise is needed in order to work off 

half the calories i could consume as a young 'un 

and still remain a size 12.

sigh.

math has never been my strong point
[that's why i prefer string to numbers when it comes to measuring]

so the long and the short of it was that i needed to extend the hem

to allow for what was going sideways

the skirt has been mended before

some of the stitching was a little rushed

i shall add more when i have a moment

but meanwhile

it's been reinforced, mended, extended

and overdyed so it's all singing off the same songsheet

and

to strengthen the fibres

because that's what eucalyptus does

much better now

meanwhile today is the last day for earlybird registrations for the Mansfield classes

because i'm off.

 meanwhile if you like 

happy snaps and sparse words [until the next blog post]

you'll find me on instagram

which is an amusing place to play