So yes, after reading Jamines post about the
Ten Honest Fashion-y Things I decided to make this tag the Ten Honest Sewing-y Things about me. Phew, that's kind of a scary thought!
Here are the Rules:
1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award.
2) Share "ten honest things" about myself.
3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged you.
4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving.
1) Sewing is my absolute favorite thing to do with stamping and piano a close second. Its a practical skill and another great way to use some of my creativity!
2) I found out recently that my mom wants me to design and make her a couch cover. That may be a little over my head...
3) Because of my personality type I think I can do more then I really can, in other words I bite off more then I can chew. Like when I was sewing Christmas presents last year for Grandparents and I messed up on all of them; let's not go into detail.
4) I basically get all my inspiration from pictures! I look at
tons of different pattern pictures and tutorials take a bit from each and designs my own. With the exception of
one of my purse designs where I was half way inspired by a book I had, but mainly designed it myself and this other purse pattern I'm creating.
5) I LOVE ribbon and buttons! Nothing is better than adding ribbon bows and buttons to things I sew. :)
6) In my past 8 months I've made over 600 inches worth of bias tape, and gotten pretty good at it too! Mainly from doing baby shower towels, and considering each one takes about 150 inches and I've made 4 in the past 6 or so months. That's approximately 12 feet per towel, or 48 feet in all. Guess I really should look into one of those bias tape makers. Hmm...
7) I do not like sewing clothes nearly as much as I do accessories. Such as wallets, purses and bags, hair ribbons, baby accessories, etc. Just about anything that's not clothes. Mainly because I have to, what I call, 'edit' the patterns which to me is not really fun. Maybe if I got one of those dressforms. *signs* Maybe someday.
8) I am not a perfectionist but when it comes to sewing I find myself being more of one! I continually tell my sister "Allison they're not going to look at each stitch and notice 'Oh look she messed up on one stitch there'" Half, if not more, of the stuff I make and giveaway, to me, does not look worth giving.
9) I am working with a young girl to help improve some of her basic sewing skills. And while doing this trying to improve my own.
10) You do not want to see my room while I'm in the middle of a sewing project! It's a disaster! When I'm in the middle of something, like a sewing project, I don't clean it up till I'm finished. So my room does not look inviting. While just the other day I was in the middle of making lots of cards, 24 in fact, and around the end my Dad saw my room and said it looked like a tornado and a cyclone came through.
So there are my Ten Honest Sewing-y Things.
God Bless,
