In this post, I am returning to a topic that came up in my very first blog post – body image. Why? Because not long after I posted the blog entry, a woman (or a betrayal of the word) started harassing me with taunts about my weight and jeered at the very idea of me […]
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Book review – Tilly Walnes’ Demystifying Dressmaking: Love at First Stitch
Since I started sewing at the beginning of 2020, I’ve been overwhelmed by the number of people I know who either expressed how they’d love to start sewing their own clothes or that they can’t believe how professional looking my makes have been since I first decided to begin dressmaking. This post is for you […]
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Why I Sew…
“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.” Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace As my first post, I thought it would make sense to write about why I sew. Sewing makes me feel happy In case the title of the […]