changes…

Generally, I see myself changing in little steps, growing in evolving, every day of my life. I can see it, so often I see myself as unchanging because the change stays so steady and constant. Like the change is a regular part of my constancy…

But then I have moments, like when I walk away from a project or even a particular skill set for a while. It may be important to say that I learn across the board, meaning that any single thing I learn while using one skill set is stored and applied to each other skill set I have developed. Along these lines, sometimes when I take a break from a hobby, I am surprised to see how much my approach to it has changes, mostly since I haven’t been seeing it evolve in the day-to-day.

Sewing.

OMGs, how I hated hand sewing.

Back in my college days, I made lots of Halloween costumes. Lots. One year, we did a group costume for fifteen people. I made them all. We won a trophy…

But every bit of those costumes were done on my mother’s industrial machines: straight stitcher, surger, tacker, pleater…

IF it needed a fastener…? Oh, look! A roll of Velcro….

No Buttons!

In fact, I have yet to ever use the buttonhole settings on my machine, since that meant I would eventually have to hand sew a button onto the other side of the garment.

Forward to now.

Yesterday, I hand-stitched the lace cuffs from this photo onto the jacket sleeves. I wanted it permanent since the cuffs kept sliding around during the shoot…

Today, I finished trimming another jacket with rabbits fur on the cuffs and collar. Very sweet, only the herringbone jacket – with the excellent exterior pockets – has a crappy lining that is well-deteriorated… So now, I am underway in the effort to reline it with a lining from a jacket I picked up just for the lining. Since the jacket is already construction, I will have to hand-stitch the entire lining.

When did I become this person…?

I even jabbed the back end of the needle a quarter inch into my fingertip and didn’t even flinch!
Fearless me! Grrrr.

Back to stitching…

Photos when it’s done.