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sometimes when i get kind compliments such as how i’m creative and a talented seamstress, my honest thoughts in my head are, ‘uh, not really, but you are so kind!’ i do not see myself as a creative person when most of the things i do are copy my favorite designers, so there’s not much creativity involved, and as you can see from most of my projects, anyone with a very basic sewing skills can do what i do, therefore not that much sewing talent is required. i’m not that good of a seamstress, i took a class in jr. high and a class in HS, then after that, i didn’t do any sewing except for making a dress or a skirt smaller by sewing the sides straight down(which happened about once every two years), until 1 1/2 years ago when i started sewing and posting them on my blog(which is why all my projects are so simple and easy, because i don’t know how to do the hard stuff!). i’m not trying to be humble or anything, these are just the facts. i wish i could say i had years and years of legit sewing classes and went to a fashion design school(which i’d love to do) but i didn’t.
which explains why i never knew until like three days ago, which i’m really embarrassed to admit, that you could do zig zags on the edges of your clothes to keep it from fraying with your sewing machine just like a serger? i mean, i knew zig zags existed on the sewing machine, i just didn’t know you could use it like that instead of a serger. so uh, yeah, isn’t that so embarrassing? and i call myself a seamstress? hahahaha, i laughed a lot at myself when i found out by reading a couple of tutorials on sewing blogs this week and how they used zig zags instead of a serger. i thought, man, if there was such a thing as a seamstress certificate(or is there such a thing? then more embarrassment to me, yes!), i’d totally get mine taken away! i always thought you needed a serger or else you just have to double fold and sew the edges. my sewing teachers in jr. high and high school never taught that to me! or else i wasn’t paying attention then. 😉 we just had sergers so that’s the only way we did it. anyway, the good news is that i no longer need to buy a serger and the bad news is that i might’ve lost all my credibility as a seamstress. 😮
i hope everyone will have a beautiful weekend!♥
