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why I do not sew? (Moderated by Deepika)
Posted on: 1/27/10 5:26 PM ET
For some reason I can not get myself into my sewing room and sew. It is like there is some kind of blockage thing going on. Yesterday I did go to my sewing room, but only looked around and walked back out. How odd is this?
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Ada
Posted on: 1/27/10 5:57 PM ET
In reply to AdaH
not odd. I am sort of in the same place. Search for the word "mojo" in the boards, a lot of people post items about losing their sewing mojo.... it will come back
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Posted on: 1/27/10 7:56 PM ET
"Slump" is another word we use for loss of mojo.
Yeah, we talk about this a lot. :)
Yeah, we talk about this a lot. :)
Posted on: 1/27/10 10:18 PM ET
That's me for the past couple of months. I have lots of ideas and dreams, along with fabric and patterns. Nothing is getting done and I'm complaining about not having anything new to wear.
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Marilyn
January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
Posted on: 1/28/10 11:59 AM ET
Maybe you're too rich.
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Posted on: 1/28/10 12:04 PM ET
In reply to Kathleen Fasanella
Quote:
Maybe you're too rich.
Maybe you're too rich.
Good insight... I am eager to read the "Paradox of Choices"
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Posted on: 1/28/10 12:32 PM ET
Kathleen I think that artical is right on. I have to much, so I can never settle on just one thing. Even when I have settled on one thing (not lately) I want to be creative and nothing comes to mind so I don't do anything.
Alright, lets see what to I want? a vest.
fabric? The frayed denim (I have had this stuff for a couple of years)
Pattern? I must have something in my pattern drawer? I will go look.
I have a plan and I have the stuff. I can do this.
I'll get back to you guys on how this went.
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Alright, lets see what to I want? a vest.
fabric? The frayed denim (I have had this stuff for a couple of years)
Pattern? I must have something in my pattern drawer? I will go look.
I have a plan and I have the stuff. I can do this.
I'll get back to you guys on how this went.
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Ada
Posted on: 1/28/10 1:48 PM ET
In reply to Kathleen Fasanella
I love this article. It is so true . My creativity is coming back since I have had to quit buying so much fabric. (lack of funds) Instead of sewing I would purchase fabric. Now I sew instead of shop. If I go to the fabric store it is only for the notion I am out of, not to bring home 6 more yards of fabric. I want to see the bottom of my stash and have a few empty shelves. I have commited to the one garment at least a month. Shop the stash.
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Charlene
TOTAL YARDAGE IN STASH: TOO MUCH TO COUNT.
TOTAL YARDAGE IN STASH: TOO MUCH TO COUNT.
Posted on: 1/29/10 6:13 PM ET
I read somewhere that Sandra Betzina doesn't have a stash. She buys for each project and then throws away all the scraps. Maybe for some people, having all that fabric is a distraction. For me, it's sewing books. I love them and can convince myself I'm sewing when I'm just reading about sewing.
Posted on: 1/30/10 8:57 AM ET
I suffer from FoF (fear of fitting), or maybe it is FF (fitting freeze). I do a muslin but I do not complete it because I get stuck, and life gets in the way, then I cannot remember where I was. I took the bodice muslin class and never finished, because we got stuck on the sleeve, then I took the set in sleeve class, and life got in the way. I loved the bodice muslin class and learned lots of stuff.
Part of the problem is also indecision, should I adjust it according to FFRP, or Fast Fit, or Fitting Finesse. Then of course I have posted a few things on the fitting forum, and the advice is so varied.
I have the Hot Patterns Riviera Cardigan cut out and ready to sew up, hoping that a looser fitting jacket with less fitting problems will jump start the sewing process.
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Part of the problem is also indecision, should I adjust it according to FFRP, or Fast Fit, or Fitting Finesse. Then of course I have posted a few things on the fitting forum, and the advice is so varied.
I have the Hot Patterns Riviera Cardigan cut out and ready to sew up, hoping that a looser fitting jacket with less fitting problems will jump start the sewing process.
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--Becky
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