An Adventure in Sewing

It appears I am a seamstress now.

After weeks of cleaning and a wicked case of knitter's elbow, I've decided I need a new hobby. When I was about seven or eight, I was into quilting. I tried to make a dress once, but failed miserably and decided to do away with sewing forever.

Then my stepdad texted a picture of his "mask" he wore to work. It was just an old bandana they had laying around the house. I was so utterly disappointed that I decided to take action.  I stole my mother's sewing machine (it was alright, she broke mine) and waited in line at Joann Fabrics for forty minutes. 

That night, I was home whipping up mask after mask. I even found some old elastic in my mother's sewing basket (which I had also stolen... and was decidedly less okay...). Anyway, after I mastered my mask making skills, I decided to do something even more risky. Hemming and altering my own clothing.

This started with a skirt I had ordered from Thredup.com. The floor-length skirt was sadly as size too small. I decided to hem it from the top and adding in an elastic band. This worked surprisingly well and I now have a knee length elastic skirt... that is slightly too large!

For my next project, I chose to do something more eco-friendly and made some reusable menstrual pads. I promise, not nearly as gross as they sound. If our female ancestors could do it, and have to wash them with out a washing machine, I can too. Also our planet is dying, but that's for another post.

Finally, for my sewing project, I kept up with the eco-friendly ideas and made a few unpaper towels out of some t-shirts from high school. These turned out fantastic! I would highly recommend making them. Much more absorbent and far more sturdy than regular rags or paper towels.  Here's a link to a similar pattern that I used: https://www.joann.com/how-to-make-reusable-%E2%80%9Cpaper%E2%80%9D-towels/522173376P20.html I didn't use the snaps with mine, and they turned out just fine.

Sewing has been a great activity for the past few weeks. If you can't get your hands on a sewing machine, there is always hand sewing (which in my opinion is far more durable if done properly).

Adventure waits for no one,
The Lady Adventurer