my big big dream is to learn to sew. but will i ever learn, i don't know. my sewing machine seems to have the life of its own, so whenever i attempt sewing something, be it a straight line, it never really works the way i intend it...i wonder why that is. i don't really understand the language of patterns, once i even attempted to make a skirt but to start with, i couldn't understand anything the pattern said, it was definitely not in english. not distracted by that though i still attempted to cut the material out according to the pattern, but i quickly realised the pieces i'd cut out would definitely not form any sort of a skirt, even if i really wished they did. so that put me off from sewing for a while, until very recently, inspired by
Anna Maria Horner and
Lotta Jansdotter (they are my sewing gurus!), i've decided to try again and learn to sew beautiful little things to wear and to use and to decorate with.
So, here are my fist humble attempts at sewing: a tote bag from my old skirt for Iwona
and a table runner with a set of placemats
sewing these things consisted of simple straight lines, but at a closer look none of the lines is really straight, hahaha. i wonder why that is. still i'm quite proud of myself.
