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What I should be doing right now (and should have been doing over the course of the evening) is very carefully removing the starting-to-shatter silk off of a parasol, and then using that to draft the pattern to make the new cover and lining.
I can't work up the motivation to do it right now.
I also should be working on a new GCS column. Again, the motivation, it has fled.
Part of the reason I'm loath to work on the parasol is because this is an especially nice one, and the only reason I'm attempting to re-cover it is because the black silk of the outer canopy is starting to shatter. But what if I muck it up? Yes, I've re-covered parasols before, and they've turned out just fine, but but but ...
I can't work up the motivation to do it right now.
I also should be working on a new GCS column. Again, the motivation, it has fled.
Part of the reason I'm loath to work on the parasol is because this is an especially nice one, and the only reason I'm attempting to re-cover it is because the black silk of the outer canopy is starting to shatter. But what if I muck it up? Yes, I've re-covered parasols before, and they've turned out just fine, but but but ...