Intro Post

[miss_s_b]

Hello! My name is Jennie and I am trying to get back into sewing, mainly because I am poverty-stricken and need to make/mend clothes rather than buying new ones, and also to make things for cosplay purposes. I dream of a Sixth Doctor costume. I realise that this will involve upping my level of skill significantly.

I am fairly confident with hand-sewing, but I have never used a sewing machine. I am considering going on a course at my local adult education centre to learn sewing machine usage and various other things. I have designed my own patterns before, but only very basic ones, and my main experience is in altering existing clothes with darts etc to fit my shape better. My maternal grandma was a seamstress, and my mum can do various basic sewing machine things, but is at the level of confidence where she's thinking of joining me on the course at the adult education centre...

I am ignorant of technical sewing terms (for instance: what is interfacing? How does one grommit?) but am a quick learner, and am hoping that there are people in this comm who will be able to explain things to me when I am flailing with lack of understanding.

It's nice to meet you all :)

Comments

[dhae_knight_1]

Youtube is your friend. I read the description of how to do understitching 5 times and still didn't get it. 5 minutes on youtube and not only did I see how, I also got an explanation of *why*. :-)

Also. *waves* Welcome! :-D

[miss_s_b]

Oh WHY to do something is a really important thing; I was brought up by a scientist, so my urge if I don't know why people recommend doing something a certain way is to experiment to find out, which CAN be useful, but sometimes leads to disaster...