Here I am, in my favorite month of the year! Anyone know why? If you don't already know then you don't know me very well...maybe...if you keep coming around enough you will.
I decided to start blogging my sewing adventures for 2 reasons. Number one: my sewing is tied directly into everything I do every day. The fabric of my life is not always made of cotton or polyester. Sometimes it is made of thunderstorms and fights with my husband. There are times when it is made of my children's laughter and my adorable nephew who has Down's Syndrome and is one of the lights of my world.
I am very, very proud of knowing how to sew. Knowing a skill that is dieing among men and women. Knowing something that humans have been doing for all time in a time when some of us know little except how to send a text message. Reason one for writing this blog? Most people don't care how their clothes are made.
Reason two? Some people think it is magic. What do I mean by that?
The average person knows that sewing is a skill. The average person knows that some people are just born with the insight on how to make curtains and pillows and corsets and slacks. This little piece of everyday knowing makes them feel like they can treat you like crap because you can sew. How many times has a woman said to me, "Well I could make that if I wanted to!". Then by all means, go make it. But here is the big kicker, they don't! They want to pay you $2.00 an hour like your working in some shop in Mexico, which, don't get me started, is a whole nother blog.
I do not spend 10 hours throwing around 10 yards of silk to make you an amazing dress that will be in your wedding pictures the rest of your life (well, until your second marriage anyway) for you to pay me $25.00. There is a reason the dresses at David's Bridal are $1,000.00! Well, the really amazing ones, and please don't tell me your dress was custom ordered from some famous designer in Australia because if you didn't fly there for your fittings, it wasn't...end of story...But if you have to tell your groom and your father that so they will pay for it, go for it, just don't ever let them read my blog!
Here I am, waving hello, just letting you know that if you read this, your going to be reading about my sewing yes, but you are going to be reading about my life. The life of a dress that will never be finished, a dress that will ever be priceless...I like my little tag I made up, "You may only wear it once, but it will be your dress forever!"
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