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[unamaga]

Okay. Who here knows how to sew? Come on, speak up. There has to be someone. I will owe you my STILL BEATING HEART. Or, y'know, a present of some kind.


I know, not the best sketch ever, but, well, it gets the point across. I really, really, REALLY want to make that outfit, but I don't even know one end of a needle from the other until I poke myself with it. And then I get blood all over. It's just not good. All I know of sewing comes from that one scene in Cinderella where the mice are making her dress for the ball, which, hey, might not be entirely useful as I am neither six inches tall nor do I have a lot of mousey friends.

Anyway. Can anyone point me in a direction or give me some tips? I don't want to be, like, the next Project Runway contestant, I just want to make my own clothes fit right. Child-bearing hips, people--apparently the clothing industry does NOT like them. :(


PS OMG YES I WILL HAVE THE CW!!! *EXCITED FACE*

Comments

[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

I know how to sew but I'm not the neatest person in the world so possibly not the sort of person one could learn much off :0P

(Although you so should have come to school last year when it was so hot in the classroom we had to go outside, and I taught the kids sewing under the big oak trees and it was all very lovely and time-wastery. Then you could have learnt :0P)

But. Probably I'd say a sewing machine for that malarkey? Which I have no idea how to operate. Although we do have one, somewhere...

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Sewing machines scare me. They're all big and prone to going REALLY FAST and they can hurt you. BADLY. *childhood trama*

And even though you're sloppy, do you know how I would go about measuring out the fabrics?

[polyspaston.livejournal.com]

Errrr....no. No idea. Have you got some sort of sewing...shop, nearby? Middle-aged women in sewing shops are the ones you want :0P I have a vendetta against middle-aged women in general BUT I do believe they can be helpful when working with fabrics.

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Um. I probably do? Maybe I can ask my aunt, who lives a few towns over. She and I can go harass some old ladies.