I've been wanting to move my blog away from Blogspot for a while but could never be bothered to actually do it. This week was the tipping point though, and I've now fully migrated over to https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ . The blogspot address will remain here but all new posts will only appear at https://patsypoomakes.wordpress.com/ . There are lots of reasons for the move but my biggest one is how hard Blogger has made it for people to subscribe to receive new posts via email. It's such a basic requirement but apparently, they think it's too much to offer. I'm basing this purely on how I myself prefer to consume this stuff. I can't be arsed with feed readers anymore and emails are easy and convenient. When I receive one, if I fancy reading it, I will click through to it and, if not, I'll just delete it. Another reason is the spat between Google (owners of Blogger) and Instagram/Facebook/Meta. I don't even know if this is still the case anymore ...
Remember the Pona jacket I made last week? As I mentioned in that post, I ended up with around 1.25m of the fabric left. I wondered if I'd be able to squeeze some jeans out of that. I've had the Megan Nielsen Dawn jeans on my list to make for a while so I decided to give them a whirl. I won't be talking about the fabric again today. You can check the jacket post for that if you're interested. The jeans were an absolute joy to make. It took me about 3 afternoons to finish and everything went exactly as it should. Isn't it funny how we evolve though? Two years ago, before I made my first pair , jeans seemed like an insurmountable task. Fast forward to now: I decided last week I wanted to make jeans, cut them out at the weekend and they were ready on Thursday, like it was no big deal. 🤷♀️ That's because it really isn't a big deal. I don't think they're difficult, it's just a lot of steps. The instructions were amazing. Just like the A...