Видео

Sitting at my desk wrapped in an Electric Blanket, a jacket and a hat! LOL I'm so there with you on all of this!

I love your personality so much, ty for sharing❤

Thank you so much for this video. It is so discouraging when you want to start doing a thing and you look up videos only to be told "This is how you do the thing properly" and then they list a bunch of stuff you need or classes you need to take etc. I learned to sew in high school in the 90s. I have made a few dresses for myself, one being a 50s style dress for my MIL's (not ex MIL) wedding in early 2000s, and would love to do more (since trying to buy clothing that I like and fit properly. Starting simple doesn't always work for sewing or other crafts. I wanted to learn crochet for over a decade but could not wrap my head around it. Kept seeing "start with granny squares, scarves and blankets because they are simple" but they were soooooooo boring. I saw a reel with Elyse Meyers where she said if you want to learn crochet don't start with a granny square (especially if you are neurodivergent) start with something that excites you. Once I heard that I found a pattern I really wanted to make and within a few weeks was able to do it and it has been the only thing I have been able to consistently stick with. Doing things the proper way keep me stuck and from trying a thing.

Wishing you many sewing successes in 2025.

Awesome video, Love the ‘you will fail’. It is so true. I start with bedsheets with a new pattern, I don’t get too worried when I do fail and waste that ‘precious’ fabric

A tip for the sewing kits, get fiberglass measuring tapes. They're only slightly more expensive on Wawak than the plastic ones, but they don't stretch. Wawak is a great source for good quality, inexpensive tools and notions if you're unable to get things secondhand.

This came up on my fyp and love it. I rarely buy notions new and even when I couldnt find my (mountain) of zippers due to having stuff split over two states, I grabbed a couple from the op shop. And getting an older sewing machine is definitely a good idea!

I use a discord channel I made to track cool ideas, brainstorming, projects in the works, completed projects and expenses and time.

I keep a sewing journal - I make notes of changes I make to the pattern, or where I used different techniques to the instructions, to make the next project with that pattern go more smoothly.

Did you glue your stamp to a wood block?

Been sewing for decades but this vlog has great advice and motivation…even for me! Thank you 🤸🏼

This is wonderful, sage advice. I second the idea to "thrift" your notions, tools, and machines when possible. The previous generations took good care of their gear. A lot of it is American and European made. A lot of families will be grateful that Mom's sewing room contents is going to be put to good use.

The Helens closet tshirts and instructions really helped me to get my head around neck bands.

I really appreciate your outside the box thinking. I’m way too much a “rule” follower with hobbies and an over thinker so I really benefit from your thoughts and ideas. Also you’re interesting to listen to. ✌️

That tip about a sewing kit for each location you sew in is great. I have learned to keep craft supplies stored by project, not by type of item. For example, instead of storing all my punches in a bin, all my elastics in a different bin, etc., I put the ones I need in the bin with the traveller's notebook cover supplies I'm currently using.

I'd settle for just being able to thread my machine. It's a b35 Bernadette model from Bernina (their cheap line, not the normal expensive models). The store has classes, but they require you bring your own machine to class, which is ridiculous. Getting it home in the bus was hard enough.

Great video! I like your tips, and your suggestions about doing it second hand. I've always loved vintage sewing notions. I had to forbid myself from buying more and more and more a few years back. 😀

Thank you for this awesome video! Great tips!

✔️ Scatterbrained ✔️ Raging ADHD ✔️ Need dopamine (and more importantly, tips) Here we go! Thanks for the tips!

Hello 👋🏼 First ☺️♥️♥️♥️

Oh man the pop sewing thing, those kits look awesome and I’m tempted to make my husband get one and pick one out for myself and call it a date night 😂 he did leather working as a kid and I’ve never

The scraps and pieces of old clothing that can't be thrown away...my eternal battle. Argh! Then the paralysis that comes from the overwhelm of not throwing away the scraps for years and the massive dopamine hit that you get when you finally have the project that allows you to use up a whole bunch of scraps at once. It is unreasonably addictive. Ugh!

There's a way to turn a blanket into a jacket without cutting out pieces. Absolutely no waste. You cut down on one narrow end half the depth of your sleeves then in on each side to free the front to wrap around you. Two yoke seams and two sleeve seams and done.

8 mins in, snd the sewing had not started yet, I am in love with you, when i sew something it's like it had to be perfect or it's rubbish, there's no in-between. But this, THIS was such a breath of fresh air!

❤

Looks like singer featherweight bobbins. Zipper foot for singer.

OMG, this hit home❤, currently I have been transforming my space everyday. Now on day 4, it's addictive 😊 once started. I love watching you, ty❤

I've adapted it into a dress with an elastic waist.

Ooh, scary… but I think I’m in. I finished a long delayed (because boring) mending job today so that’s a good start, I hope. I have too much yarn and too much fabric and too much EVERYTHING except money, so yeah. I am in. 😅

I like it. I collect projects, but don’t make them. But neither will I make something that I have no interest in now, just to use up “stuff”.

Cool 😀

Very pretty 😀

Very pretty 😀

Happy New year, and good luck with the challenge, I have many projects on the go, but some are open ended, so I will endeavour to keep to the rules. ❤

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm. " -Winston Churchill

I will 100% be joining for the January mini challenge. I have a Christmas dress and a petticoat that are so close to being finished and have been languishing form months/weeks

I am not a maker, but i am a collector of lots of stuff. Regarding my ‘projects’, I am going to allow buying things to finish said project. I don’t foresee a need for clothes or household items (except for a small lamp), so hopefully I will stick to this. I have been diligently cleaning out but still HAVE SO MUCH. I JUST WANT EVERYTHING BEHIND A DOOR. at least. I may be approaching functional, thanks to Dana K White and her decluttering process. Anyway, good luck! I give it 4 months before you justify and succumb to temptation, ha!

Im doing a no buy year too. Heaven help me. I need to do a small declutter but not too much, just a couple of bags. Sadly I don’t know how to make my own clothes so I can’t do that one. Im also gonna try a no gift year, where no one spends money on me for my 40th in June and Christmas 2025.