Gym or do a night course?

I'd do the dressmaking course myself. If you don't really want to go to the gym you won't go as often as you should and as you have to usually sign contracts you could end up wasting a lot of money. A lot of colleges do night courses in dressmaking.

Yeah I was going to say do the course, then perhaps go for walks or something during the day. Or even a swim?

Dana, they usually offer different levels of sewing classes in different semesters, but I think would probably always accomodate absolute beginners. And like you say it is useful, I picked up some cool fabric for $5 a metre last week and made myself an awseome a-line skirt for about $7. My sewing skills are very average but an A-line skirt is so simple it is hard to go wrong.

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That is what I want to do in time summerlamb, pick up some material and make something!!

We go walking most days and I do Aquafit on Tuesday nights!

The course sounds like fun but if even that sounds like too much "work" why don't you just arrange a fortnightly coffee date with a few friends - go out to a nice cafe and have a night off.