I started sewing in April 2010. I bought my first sewing machine from Craig's List. It is a Brother sewing machine and I got some sewing extrasa part of the deal with the sewing machine- cutting board, rotary cutter, pinking sissors, 2 regular sissors, thread, bobbins, 4 patterns, jar of buttons, various elastics, sewing box, chalk, pins and magnetic pin holder, seam ripper, and other stuff I am still figuring out.
I wanted to learn how to sew for two reasons. First, I recently watched The Proposal on Netflix. I really loved the jacket that Sandra Bullock wears while she is getting on the boat. I looked all over the internet to find the coat but was unsuccessful. I even wrote to a few vintage sites and asked if they would be able to make it but never received a response. I then found a seamtress in my area and she said she could make me the coat but I would need to find a pattern first. I started searching for patterns and finally found one. I called the seamstress and she told me that I would need to go to the fabric store and find the fabic and buttons I wanted for the coat. I felt like I had to do so much of the work already to get the coat that sewing it might not be that difficult. This line of thinking may sound naive to some people but it made sense to me. I still wasn't completely convinced about sewing yet though. I have never thought I had a creative gene in my body and felt even more strongly that I did not have the ability to sew EVER. I have always had my husband do sewing repairs because I was intimidated.
The second reason I decided to sew was due to a conversation I had with my sister. She was talking about the old housedresses that my grandma used to wear. We remininced about how nice and comfortable those dresses were. It is so hard to find modest housedresses these days. It was after talking to my sister that i decided I would learn to sew and suprise her with a housedress.
Once I get an idea, I move forward with it very quickly. I found the sewing machine on Craig's list. I read and watched videos on youtube.com to learn about sewing and went to Joanne's to get my first pattern (the one I ordered online had not shown up yet). I bought the pattern and some material and began cutting right away and was finished with my first dress in a couple days. There were many things I wich I had known at first. For example, I didn't know how to wind a bobbin on the machine so I hand wound the bobbin
Connie from http://www.itssewadorable.com/ helped explain how a sewing machine worked and I didn't have as many snafu's after that.
I wanted to learn how to sew for two reasons. First, I recently watched The Proposal on Netflix. I really loved the jacket that Sandra Bullock wears while she is getting on the boat. I looked all over the internet to find the coat but was unsuccessful. I even wrote to a few vintage sites and asked if they would be able to make it but never received a response. I then found a seamtress in my area and she said she could make me the coat but I would need to find a pattern first. I started searching for patterns and finally found one. I called the seamstress and she told me that I would need to go to the fabric store and find the fabic and buttons I wanted for the coat. I felt like I had to do so much of the work already to get the coat that sewing it might not be that difficult. This line of thinking may sound naive to some people but it made sense to me. I still wasn't completely convinced about sewing yet though. I have never thought I had a creative gene in my body and felt even more strongly that I did not have the ability to sew EVER. I have always had my husband do sewing repairs because I was intimidated.
The second reason I decided to sew was due to a conversation I had with my sister. She was talking about the old housedresses that my grandma used to wear. We remininced about how nice and comfortable those dresses were. It is so hard to find modest housedresses these days. It was after talking to my sister that i decided I would learn to sew and suprise her with a housedress.
Once I get an idea, I move forward with it very quickly. I found the sewing machine on Craig's list. I read and watched videos on youtube.com to learn about sewing and went to Joanne's to get my first pattern (the one I ordered online had not shown up yet). I bought the pattern and some material and began cutting right away and was finished with my first dress in a couple days. There were many things I wich I had known at first. For example, I didn't know how to wind a bobbin on the machine so I hand wound the bobbin
Connie from http://www.itssewadorable.com/ helped explain how a sewing machine worked and I didn't have as many snafu's after that.
