Behold, the sewing station:
My mother-in-law decided a few years back that she should get a new sewing machine, I assume with every intention of using it- at least at some point. Years later it still sat completely untouched, mounted to a new sewing desk. After one of their moves it came to reside in our guest bedroom.
So there I sat, brand new sewing machine mocking me, while I kicked myself for never learning anything beyond simple tacking and mending. My grandmother was an *amazing* seamstress, and she made me countless garments. But did I do anything beyond watch? Nope. So I took my ass away from the TV and into the guest bedroom. After teaching myself how to thread my bobbin (or whatever it's called), I put the bobbin in the thingy and thread my needle, and I was ready. Here's what I managed:
Oh- yeah baby, it's a straight line. I rock. I even did a nice little corner and a few more lines. I think I need to work on keeping my line straight, but for the most part I felt my first self-taught sewing lesson went well. I think I'll play around with the different stitches and what-not for awhile- you know, maybe make a pillow case that probably wont fit a pillow properly, that kind of thing.
I'm a crafty bitch.
2 comments:
Yous and Mes need to practice together. I'm still learning too. And I'm not patient, I end up just haphazardly doing craaaazy things to my fabric. I had Anita help teach me to sew bloomers... she said it'd take an hour or two. 5 hours later we were both yelling at each other and I was calling a sewing nazi. It was actually pretty amusing and hysterical - we laughed just as much as we argued. I got bored with all the pressing and pinning and just wanted to skip those stages... and she was a good teacher because she wouldn't let me. But anyhows... yeah we gotta have a sewing night sometime soon.
A straight line! YAY! I'm sooo proud of you!
Time for a stitch and bitch with Ninjen.
Let's do it!!!
Big A!
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