Hello everyone! My name is Rebecca, and I'm new to the DISBoards, but not new to WDW or loving all things Disney! I have 2 children, Brendan (12) and Ella (4), and though we are trying for another one, it's not looking good, lol. I'll be 39 in September and my husband Greg will be 48 in July and we are feeling like old farts who can't keep up with the ones we've got!
I have spent hours now pouring through this thread and I'm still not even a third of the way through! All your creativity and designs are fabulous and I love the sisterhood I can feel that you all have established here as well!
I am a great sewer in my mind. Which means, I can't sew a lick, but I long to be able to. I am very crafty, I love paint and paper projects, and can easily see how things are made, and I'm always looking at stuff and saying 'they want HOW much? Oh man if I only could sew.' For some reason, machine sewing is so intimidating to me. I can cut out basic pattern pieces and sew SIMPLE things by hand, but have a brand new (well, now it's 5 years old) Brother machine that has never been out of the box because I don't even know how to thread it. I made curtains for my son's room out of bedsheets that matched his comforter and I used iron-on tape, lol.
We are going to WDW in December 2010 and I have made a goal that I want to be able to sew some outfits for Ella to take on our trip. I don't really have or know anyone who can teach me one on one, and the local JoAnns seems only to be offering classes to people who already know how to work their machine or the Viking/Singer/Husquavarna classes where you have to buy the machine to take the class.
I did buy the Simplicity Simply the Best Sewing Book years back, but I don't think it was basic enough for me, lol.
Are there books/videos, etc that you all would recommend for a true novice like me? I can mend things and sew simple hems by hand and years back I used to do a bit of embroidery, but I just would LOVE to be able to make these stinkin' cute boutique kind of clothes, to be able to embellish jeans, etc. I think it truly is a psychological hurdle. My mom sewed through her fingernail bed when I was 4 or 5 years old, it wasn't really as bad as it sounds but I remember it was very bloody and I think that probably has something to do with why I'm so afraid of machine sewing.
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