Sewing Notions
Just a list of things I've discovered in becoming a seamstress. I'm sure I will constantly be adding to this....
Sewing Notions:
- When you're almost done with a project, that's when you'll encounter the most problems.
- A seamstress can always identify another seamstress by the loose threads stuck to her butt.
- You don't go shopping for clothes to wear, you go shopping for clothes you can rip up and turn into something else (Bless you, Goodwill).
- Hardwood floors are best for a sewing room. Loose threads are death for a vacuum cleaner.
- Don't have a broom handy? Socked feet work great. Just know that you'll leave a trail of fabric scraps and threads everywhere you go.
- The sewing machine can be the greatest invention one minute, and a beast from hell the next.
- Save every scrap of fabric, even the tiniest sliver, because you never know when you'll need that 1'' square of fabric.
- Scissors will never again be as sharp as when you first bought them.
- Instead of looking at something and saying, "Ooo, I want that!", you say, "Ooo, how can I make that?".
- ALWAYS have a budget BEFORE entering the fabric store. Do not go over the budget under any circumstances... Ok, maybe you can spare another $10.
- Fabric stores, Micheal's, and Hobby Lobby employees greet you by name. If it's been more than two weeks since the last visit, they start to worry.
- Seams become fascinating, and you start studying the hems and stitching of every product you come across.
- Straight lines are a bitch.
- Being a seamstress is like being a doctor. As soon as people find out your profession, they always have something they want you to mend.
- Everything has the possibility to be turned into something else... something BETTER!
- Those lint roller thingies are the greatest thing ever invented.
- Never wear dark pants to work in - at the end of a project you'll look like you're molting a thousand different bits of fabric.
- If you hate something that you made, put it to the side. Get a good night's sleep and look at it again in the morning - 9 times out of 10 you'll see that it's perfectly fine. Stress makes brain imagine things. Either that, or elves come in the night and fix it for you.
