I am far from good at sewing. My mom once made my sister’s grade eight graduation dress. I stood in awe at the fact she was capable of making something so awesome. I tried to use her ancient singer for years. It hated me. Never once did it co-operate. A few weeks ago, I attempted to use my sister’s sewing machine. It’s much newer and much more fond of me. I managed to pump out 70 cloth diaper inserts, which were really just 4 layers of rectangles sewed together around the edge.
With some confidence in my abilities, today I decided to finish off my beloved Chatsworth House cross-stitch I picked up in England back in October. My mom taught me how to cross-stitch when I was rather young. It was so exciting to pick it up again as an adult and actually finish a fair sized piece!
I had decided I wanted to make it into a pillow. There’s an awesome discount fabric store in Edmonton that I had found a really nice gold material at. Bonus that it was on clearance too! I picked up a pillow form while I was there too. I knew I wanted the pillow slip to come off the pillow form, just incase it needed to be cleaned at some point. I went back and forth between a zipper and buttons, until I realized that making a pocket would be the easiest thing to sew.
After ripping out three seams after realized that the cross-stitch was on backwards, and sewing three seams around it’s entirety to get the size tight enough, I finally can say I sewed something half decent!
Sewing is definitely something I’d love to do more of! I’d love to hear what was your first sewing project was!
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