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Sewing was a constant in my life. My Mom was always doing it when I was a kid (making our clothes) and I learned from her and my Nana how to muck around with a pattern. I took a class in high school to fill in a needed practical art credit. I did some in college for goth clothes or ren faires, which lead to costuming.
Over the years the tools have gotten fancier. I've gotten very good at following patterns, though tailoring just doesn't work for me (my lack of a spatial brain isn't good at interpreting shapes to paper or cloth). I go through waves where I sew sew sew and where I don't want to even think about it.
I have a ton of fabric in my attic leftover from projects that Brian and I have created over the years. It is nice to look back at them and remember the things we made, but I'm not actually doing anything with them. I have the costumes or the clothes or the photos of these items to jog my memories too. Most of it has to go, since most of it isn't actually reserved for one project or another. There were things left over, things I picked up because it was pretty and a good price, things I'm not even sure how we ended up with (freebies from a friend or something).
It was a nice exercise to go through it all and I was happy to start the process of passing these things on to others so that they could make their own creations. I'm going to empty the bins into piles of like materials on the big table in our craft room to make the parusing easier. Sort by fibers and colors and that kind of thing. What's left will go to the thrift store, though I'm sure that some of you will want to take some of the goodies from me first, right? :)
Over the years the tools have gotten fancier. I've gotten very good at following patterns, though tailoring just doesn't work for me (my lack of a spatial brain isn't good at interpreting shapes to paper or cloth). I go through waves where I sew sew sew and where I don't want to even think about it.
I have a ton of fabric in my attic leftover from projects that Brian and I have created over the years. It is nice to look back at them and remember the things we made, but I'm not actually doing anything with them. I have the costumes or the clothes or the photos of these items to jog my memories too. Most of it has to go, since most of it isn't actually reserved for one project or another. There were things left over, things I picked up because it was pretty and a good price, things I'm not even sure how we ended up with (freebies from a friend or something).
It was a nice exercise to go through it all and I was happy to start the process of passing these things on to others so that they could make their own creations. I'm going to empty the bins into piles of like materials on the big table in our craft room to make the parusing easier. Sort by fibers and colors and that kind of thing. What's left will go to the thrift store, though I'm sure that some of you will want to take some of the goodies from me first, right? :)
