For as long as I can remember I wanted to learn how to sew. We bought a house in November 2008, and I was 7.5 months pregnant with A when we moved in. I don’t know if it was nesting or what, but I found a local place (Sew-LA) that teaches sewing classes. They even taught Machine Intro 101. I had all these delusions of grandeur about how I was going to sew all of the curtains and pillow covers in the house before the baby was born. I’m totally serious too. I really thought it was going to be so easy. 
Then I took the mending class because again my delusional mind thought if I learned how to take things in, I could stop paying the dry cleaner to fix my clothing. I mean he charged me practically nothing for all of the hemming and yet I was convinced it was much more worth it for me to learn how. You know in my spare time when not at work or with the kids I should spend a couple of hours taking up some jeans. {insert eye roll here}
I was on another planet when it came to sewing. I was totally convinced it would be nothing.
Let us enter the real world shall we?
I left the brand new sewing machine in the box until A was about 4 months old. At that point I volunteered to help J’s pre-K class make pillows for Passover. The kids decorated white napkins and the teacher gave them to me with another napkin to make the back.
My mom had to come pin them for me because of course the absolute master I was I couldn’t even figure out how to pin them. It was literally sewing four sides and I was lost. Thank g-d these were for kids who wouldn’t notice, because crooked was my middle name that day. It was embarrassing.
Let us please remember this was going to be so easy.
ONE YEAR later I finally buckled down to take my first garment class that actually used a real pattern. It was a wrap skirt which uses Kwik Sew 2954 I chose to use Amy Butler’s Daisy Chain Fabric Dandelion Field Mist. Three classes for three hours each and I’d have a new wrap skirt. The first class was just learning to read a pattern and cutting the pattern out. I couldn’t believe it took that long to cut a pattern and fabric. My mom laughed at me because again I was not on this planet when it came to sewing.
Anyway, I wore my new skirt. My co-worker is going to give me some fabric to make her one too. I figure practice right? Let’s hope the lines on her skirt are straight. Here’s my skirt. Cute right? I think I’ll take another class…
Please excuse the look on my face, I don’t know what happened.
Your skirt is cute! The more you sew skirts, the easier it gets. I recommend the book Sew What! Skirts. It’s full of simple ideas to create your own skirts without having to purchase a commercial pattern. It’s easier to fit your own measurements than trying to fit your measurements into a Big4 pattern. I haven’t use a skirt pattern in quite a while now. I love drafting my own. Give it a try. Happy Sewing!
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