practice makes perfect

In order to help get past my fears of "messing up" everything I sew...I bought several yards of cheap cotton at joann fabric this week. I have wasted too much time just staring (and drooling) over beautiful new fabrics, but I've been too scared of cutting and sewing them, because I have ZERO technical knowledge.

This way, I can cut, sew, mess up, throw out, experiment, and try again, without feeling bad about wasting so much money. So I took on a challenge: re-creating one of my favorite pieces of clothing: a navy high waist skirt from Zara (while we're on that topic: why is there no Zara here in uh-merica??).

Still working on it, but I've integrated a lot of new sewing techniques/skills:

(front of skirt: pocket)

(back of skirt: shirring)

(close up: the shirring...my new favorite sewing technique)

Not bad for someone who doesn't know how to sew, eh?

The fabric isn't quite right for this project, it's a little bit too light to hold the 'pattern' correctly, but again, this was mostly just to try out my ideas and not feel bad about ruining expensive fabrics...so even if it isn't perfect, it's doing its job.

alina