Making Things To Survive!

I made a new winter scarf and mittens. I sewed the inlining and knitted the outlining and scarf. I knitted the lining and outer material to gether using a needle and yarn. I am a good seamstress and kniter, but when it comes to  making a dress or top. I suck at it. I have made potholders and pillows. I can't follow a dress pattern, and my bust size makes it even more difficult. I can learn I guess cause I learned to knit and make pillows. I am just lazy when it comes to measuring my own bode. Oh I can I just don't want to at times. My sewing machine and I have an agreement. I don't do long sewing projects and it doesn't maim me. LOL I know sewing machines can't talk. Haha. It seems that way though. Everytime I attempt a long project my sewing I end up sewing more than the fabric this includes my sleeves, finger tips and clothes.

The mittens and scarf I made will get me thru to the time I have to leave for the south. I hope to be in Arizona at the end of the year. I will use my sewing skills to make summer bandanas. I have plenty of jeans, sweaters, and shorts with tanks. I will love it in Mesa, AZ.

I also make decorations for my home now. cross stitching pictures is some of my skills, cozies for toilet paper rolls, afghans, wool stockings for Christmas with a Santa on them, and other needs for my home like rugs. Braiding rugs is like crocheting. It's easy and fun. If someone could tell me how to get a real simple pattern and material? I would like to try my hand at sewing out fits again. I will need it there since I don't shop at Wal-Mart for clothes from the factory. I would very much like to become an expert at clothes sewing for the men in my life too. I will need to make things to Survive down there as well as here, since my income is still low at $603 a month. This has to support me includes rent and utilities. I have released the noose around my neck by selling my trailer/mobile home. I have only what I get from Social Security and my wits to make things to survive on my own. The making your own lifestyle has real appeal to me. It is one I intend to live while living frugally and tightwad life. Well any ideas is always good I say. Even the far out ones. Welcome to my frugal life and tightwad life too.

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just a note, dear: you can't do your own measurements-- get a friend to do them, and write everything on a card to keep in your purse
Reader's Digest has a good sewing course in a book, which takes you through all the steps of clothing construction
there is also a magazine called Clothilde's Sewing Savvy which gives a lot of help on adjusting patterns
you may need to work with two sizes of a pattern- one for your top and one for your bottom (so to speak), but once you have matched your measurements to a pattern the battle is almost over
fitting is much harder than the sewing part, but without the fitting nothing you make will ever fit right
check your local library for instructional books on apparel sewing, and also check your local fabric shops for beginner sewing courses
often they have classes for teen, where you can learn how to fit your pattern
I think you're doing very well. Living with depression is an uphill struggle, every day. I know....
feel free to contact me directly at blind_quilter@yahoo.com

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