Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Product of History

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This is a picture of a book that my mother owns and probably bought it when it first came out. I never thought I would see such a book in my hands for as cheap as five dollars. Sewing is just one of the things that has been on my mind in the last few weeks. My mother used to sew...she still does on and off, but she used to sew all my clothes when I was a pre-teen. I grew SOOO fast that she didn't really have a choice because I would grow out of my clothes before I could wear them more than a handful of times. I used to cut out the patterns for her and watch her sew. She would also sew outfits for my American Girl Dolls too. I kinda miss that, but I be damned if I ask her to sew something for my 20 something self now :p

I'm halfway through my undergrad years as an illustrator and I barely make enough money to cover my rent and the bills. I think that is why I am looking to sewing. I was so focused on drawing when I was younger that my mom didn't bother to teach me to actually sew. She bought me my art supplies and I was plenty happy with that. I am finding that I am good a quite a few things so focusing on one thing and getting great at it is pretty hard. Hell even know, I don't know what I want to do with my degree or where to even start with momentum now that I have been out of school a year. I won't be getting back into school for another semester (will be back in January). I think me reaching out to my roots of hand sewing and such is just me wanting to go back to the way that things used to be. Or to start over and do it right this time.

School for me has come to be some huge "You're doing it wrong?!" or "You aren't putting in effort!" and I want to use this blog to adventure like that. Will anyone join me? I dunno. We'll see.

~S.A.