Sewing: learning moar!
Dec. 8th, 2023 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blythelyMy dressmaking course finished this week. It was a 12 week evening class and the fastest two hours in each week. Doing something material always makes the time pass quickly - gardening, pottery, cooking, sewing - there's something Einsteinian about the rearranging of matter and it's relationship to time.
It was a good course - very knowledgeable tutor. Though I think she was slightly baffled by me being all "let's start at the beginning, I forgot what a needle is" and then a few weeks later clearly having plugged that module of the Matrix back in to my brain, and making four garments when others were just finishing the first.
So I was just hovering over the catalogue about whether to do another term with a different tutor (who runs an all-levels drop-in situation), when the other local art college popped up on my instagram with an "introduction to tailoring" course. I am really interested in learning more bespoke and pattern-drafting techniques, pretensions to couture and all that. I spoke with the college at lunch and asked if the tutor could send me more details - from the course description I wondered if it would go at a very slow pace (50 hours for a waistcoat?) WE SHALL SEE.
I also just realised (because I am always dumb about things like this) that subconsciously I was always heading here; one of the OCs that Circe and I have in our verrry slowly emerging socialist wish-fulfillment cosy-fantasy is a tailor. Haha, me.
It was a good course - very knowledgeable tutor. Though I think she was slightly baffled by me being all "let's start at the beginning, I forgot what a needle is" and then a few weeks later clearly having plugged that module of the Matrix back in to my brain, and making four garments when others were just finishing the first.
So I was just hovering over the catalogue about whether to do another term with a different tutor (who runs an all-levels drop-in situation), when the other local art college popped up on my instagram with an "introduction to tailoring" course. I am really interested in learning more bespoke and pattern-drafting techniques, pretensions to couture and all that. I spoke with the college at lunch and asked if the tutor could send me more details - from the course description I wondered if it would go at a very slow pace (50 hours for a waistcoat?) WE SHALL SEE.
I also just realised (because I am always dumb about things like this) that subconsciously I was always heading here; one of the OCs that Circe and I have in our verrry slowly emerging socialist wish-fulfillment cosy-fantasy is a tailor. Haha, me.
