I've discovered something over the past year, and it is that I am competent, capable, and oh so creative. The realization has come with some tears and wadded up balls of fabric banished to kitty bed hell (or heaven, depending on how much you like kitties sleeping on you, so make that heaven for me), but it has finally come. And it is through sewing.
I began teaching myself to sew back in 2011, but it wasn't until I got my hands on a good sewing machine about a year ago that I really started to get into it. Over the past 12 months I've been on a god damned tear. I am actually making wearable clothing. When I wore my very first dress out for the very first time, a girl on the street stopped me and said, "That's a gorgeous dress." And my heart caved in on itself from the weight of all kinds of joy. I haven't looked back.
Competent, capable, creative - these are the feelings that sewing brings out in me. I've never felt so good about myself as I do when I step out in all my me-made glory. It has truly been a revelation.
So here I am, entering the blogosphere to show the hell off. Don't hate me 'cuz my clothes are beautiful.
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