My brain is ready to explode from frustration... I have been trying to draft patterns to sew clothes for myself. Why you might ask... the answer is simple, my measurements don't fit into the mold of traditional patterns I could buy in the store and it seemed easier to try to start from scratch than to modify existing patterns. I have tried the modifying route before and had disastrous results. Well, I must say that even though I found a great book which has gotten me very close to having usable patterns, it hasn't resulted in an acceptable fit yet either. What the process has accomplished is making my frustration and hatred of myself grow by leaps and bounds. I am so frustrated with what a pain in the butt my body is to fit and how a simple dart can allude me from being in just the right spot to work... and being in that just not quite right spot makes it all so NOT working. I have however accomplished to be able to make myself a pattern for what ended up looking like a big ole potato sack dress when I made a mockup of it. So I am back where I have been for years now... resigning myself to buy ready made clothes that don't fit me any better and which end up having no shape at all either in order to fit my larger curves as I can either have them fit my larger curves or I can try to go for something more fitted and end up hating the way it feels when I move. Give me a paper bag & a dark room please. I will just live here.
I haven't had a lot of luck lately making clothes that fit Kinley either so that isn't an option that is even sounding very appealing at the moment.
So now what to do with the bundle of fabric I bought for making myself clothes with gift certificates I received for my birthday??
At the moment, the only successful project that I can think I have done lately and which I could use some of the fabric for is to make myself another sling bag... but I have way more fabric than I need for that.
I really am not sure right now but I needed to vent my frustration which is causing me to have one heck of a horrid headache this afternoon. I am packing up my sewing and leaving it be for awhile as I am in no mood whatsoever to do anything with it now. I would rather leave the fabric packed up than ruin it by trying to make something when nothing at the moment is working out as intended.
So off to clean it up I go... which is good as we have company coming this weekend and I needed to pack it up anyways... I just thought I might have a project completed before I packed it up.
I hope your day is going better and your creative mojo is keeping you happy. If you find mine, would you ask it nicely to come back home. I miss it terribly.
Vegas baby! VEGAS!
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I've just read a book called Subversive Seamster by Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng and Melissa Rannels. It's mainly about re-fashioning clothes picked up at charity shops and jumble. However it's got a chapter about creating your own form using an old t-shirt, some duct tape and a friend to help. That might help as it would be easier to fit clothes you are making.
April 21, 2010 3:10 PM(((hugs))) Sorry you're having a lousy day. I hope letting it out helped.
April 22, 2010 2:51 PMHere's something I heard at a teaching conference once: Students who are far from understanding the course material usually don't feel frustrated. Overwhelmed and scared, yes, but not frustrated.
The students who are frustrated are the ones who are almost-there. They're on the brink of figuring it all out. If they persevere, they're the students who stand the best chance of succeeding.
So hopefully, by taking a break and coming back with renewed enthusiasm later, you'll have your breakthrough with these frustrations, and it will all start to work.
(((hugs again)))
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