Fun -Easy Peasy!
Sometimes the week just doesn't go as you planned. This would be one of those weeks. Sick husband, grant to get out at the day job (I hate my day job) and a teenaged daughter, you can see how the wheels would come off.
Tomorrow I get my life back for a few short days. One of the things I will be doing is making a skirt. Mine will be a trumpet skirt but as long as you are using stretch fabric, making a skirt is a piece of cake. Here's how: wrap it around you so it is snug but not overly tight. Mark that point and cut it all the way down to the hem. Sew that up and you have a super easy tube skirt. Want something fancier? Take some of the extra fabric and add a godet. A godet is a long triangle that gives the hem some swish. Make it as wide as you want and stick it in the seam before you sew it up. Now you have a mermaid skirt. Make a bunch of triangles and slice up the bottom of the skirt and sew them in and now you have a swirly trumpet skirt. I told you easy peasy!
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I hate sewing buttons and hems, hems most of all. And I make tailored suits and even made my wedding dress.
One of my friends is a seamstress (is that the word for someone who makes clothes)...it always strikes me as witchery. I mean I always expect things to look like a home haircut but what she makes looks incredible. I'd love to be able to do something that well. I'm very much a jack of all trades, master of none.
Yes, she would be a seamstress and yes, it is a kind of witchcraft to take a flat piece of cloth and get it to become 3 dimensional. I'm good but the insides of my stuff show how much "make it work" goes on. I'm very much jack of all trades too. but I prefer to think of it as being a master problem solver. I do all these different things because no one ever told me I can't! Drives my family bonkers!
I have this really strange compulsion....whenever there is a fair or a street market or anything like that I will go hunting for a stall that sells cheap musical instruments (things like kazoos, tin whistles and harmonicas). I can't stop myself from buying them and I always have this notion that I am going to get really good at whatever the instrument is and impress girls with my talent. Unfortunately I have zero musical talent and no patience for the hard work required to get good.But I still buy them. Maybe buying them is my talent.
See you keep telling me stuff like that and I keep thinking this guy needs a book! I have almost all of it worked out but I need time to write it. Luckily I'm quitting my job soon so... You'll get the first copy.
I will also add, that nothing short of the end of the world was going to budge that button.