One of my personal goals for the year is to learn a new skill or revisit an old one.

I haven’t sewn anything in years, so I’m pretty rusty at it.

I would love be at a level where I can make my own skirts and dresses. But first I imagine I would have to take some dressmaking classes to learn how to sew a bit more professionally.

The other day I sewed together 6 curtain panels for our neighbours. Just sew straight lines? I can do that. As it so happened, all the curtains needed to be shortened by 15cm, so I cut off 6 strips and hemmed up the rest.

The material was quite a pleasant silky, brown, mock-suede, and it seemed like such a waste to toss them out.

So I sewed the strips together, designed my own cushion cover and it was done in 10 minutes! I made something! I felt so clever!