ok, so for our first project in construction we made a tote bag, I made mine out of duck cloth which I like but was a pain for the pattern we used. It took me one full hour to turn the straps right side out after sewing them. Pressing was also tricky with this fabric (actually pressing is always a little tricky). It took two days of lab hours and two different pockets but I eventually got it done. We also did a boxed X stitch (which is infact a box with a X in it) on the straps however the duck cloth was too thick to fit under the foot of the machine so I sewed mine on by hand stitching and instead of doing a regular box did a cross stitch box with a X in it. I also sewed some patches on mine to both hide the quality of my stitching (not good) and spruce it up! I surprisingly got a 9.2 out of 10 on the bag so I'm really happy. I was getting the feeling that maybe, even though I love sewing, I was just no good at it and so not cut out for it. It really sucks to have that feeling but I have to keep telling myself that practice will make it better. hopefully. Halloween is coming soon and I still have no idea what I should be, my fallback in case I don't come up with anything is Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. or perhaps Ms. White from Clue. who knows. Costumes for me are a big deal (ok anything dealing with clothes is a big deal for me) so if I do Halloween it's all or nothing! On another note, in textiles (a class in which I am doing better than I thought I would be) we have a project due October 20th sounds like a lot of time but really it's a big freakin project so it's not much time really. It's fun though to work on, we have a list of woven fabrics and have to find them in magazines or the internet, print the picture and the caption explaining it, define the fabric used, explain why they used that fabric and if it was a good choice or not. We have to do this 25 times. FUN! yet not fun. On other notes school on a whole is good, making friends, got a new roomate, loving my major! It feels wierd for the most part I'm happy but I miss my friends at home, no one here is quite as crazy as them. It's just so fresh here, I can really feel my life moving forward. Being far from home is lonely sometimes but here I feel that a part of me just belongs. I like it. I'm growing up to be the person I want to be. Someone who still can see the world through a child's eye but has the smarts of an adult. ahh. This felt good. I would keep talking but the studying I must do is nagging in the back of my mind. So I should do it, I guess.
P.S. next up a flouncy skirt in a tweed like material FUN!!!! (this time I'll document the process)
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