I have gotten so many requests for more chemise/shift patterns since launching the Catarina Shift last year. Turns out that while shifts are all geometry, there’s a demand for patterns that take all the maths and guesswork out of making them!
I talk to Felicity all day as I sew and do my work, and of course, I don’t call her ‘Felicity’ every time. It’s far too long and formal. I do love saying ‘Hel-lo Fe-li-ci-ty’ when she comes in after an explore outside, enunciating each syllable. Other than that I call her ‘Fissy’, ‘Fis Fis’, ‘Fiskins’, ‘Fissy Kitty’, and ‘Miss Fiss’. Less fortunate times, she gets called ‘Brat’, ‘You Horrible Thing’, and ‘The Cat’ (as in, “Gah! The Cat just tore up my silk chiffon”) or just ‘Really?’ When I really, really love her, I call her ‘Baby Fissy Kitty’ and ‘Kitten’. And when she lies in the sun with her tummy up and just exudes adorableness, then she gets called ‘Fuzzy Happiness’.
Felicity is practicing “being incredibly cute” As far as she is concerned it is a survival skill: she needs it to balance out “being so clever that she drives her people crazy” and “being incredibly annoying especially when fabric and patterns come out.”
