I've been a teacher the last 3 years, and in a big political/personal showdown, I ended up losing my job at the end of June. I applied to teaching jobs over the summer, but obviously didn't get anything. So I was just collecting unemployment and looking into switching careers and had even taken steps to going back to school in January. Then on Monday afternoon I got a phone call and I've been swept up in the whirlwind all week. I'm teaching 5th grade for San Diego Unified. The classes were overfilled so they're splitting them up and giving me the overflow and I start with kids on Monday.
At my last job, I had a really difficult time maintaining a work/personal balance and I felt like work sucked my life away. Coming home and sewing or knitting was my therapy. This week I admit that I've been very unbalanced on the side of work, but I'm also trying to learn a whole new system, get officially hired, and be all set up for kids on Monday so I'm giving myself a pass for the first month or so.
So that's my story on why I haven't done much sewing! I started a pair of pants last weekend, but haven't touched them all week. I started McCalls 6403 in View E, the wide legged loose fitting pants.
I started out with the intention to make the shorts in View D, but I had the fabric and got excited and there you have it! I've never made a fly before, and I swear it took me like 2 hours of watching you tube videos repeatedly and ripping out and trying again, but now that I've done it before I think it'd be easier the second time around. This video was extremely useful by the way for anyone trying to sew a front fly zipper. Despite doing a tissue fitting, this is a bit big so I need to shave off the sides, attach the waist band, and hem up the bottom. Hopefully I'll get to it this weekend!
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