I've been sewing since the age of ten. My dad used to paint apartments and would sometimes bring home things people had left behind. One day, when I was 10 years old, he brought home an old singer sewing machine and gave it to me :-) The first things I made were a mis-shaped quilt..an odd looking tube shape dress..and then a really cute tank top that my mom actually let me wear! lol! I come from a line of seamstresses. My mother and her mother were both seamstresses. After a couple years of playing around on my own, mom started showing me little things bit by bit. Pillows, curtains, jumpers, culottes..etc. From 14-16 I had a quilting teacher whom I loved very much! She taught me all about using rotary cutters and piecing quilt tops together. She taught me how to put in my first invisible zipper in a dress I'd made. My friend April taught me about darts, button holes, and helped me make my first two dresses. From there I had all the basics and there wasn't anything I couldn't do! At 16 I decided I wanted to learn how to sew with swimwear fabric, so mom let me at her stash of fabric and I made about 15 trial runs. I sold them all to people in our home school group for $15-$30 a piece. After a while I became the go to person for swimwear in our family. Also in high school, we got into a dance group called ECD English Country Dancing. With this came costumes for the Balls they would have. Oh how I loved that! It even went as far as making a period correct costume from 1770 with the stays and all! I eventually went on to make my own wedding dress and am currently working on my sister's wedding dress :-)
My sisters in their modest swimwear
Isabel's reproduction Gunne Sax Dress
My reproduction Gunne Sax Dress
1770's polonaise dress
Oh, so many things I've sewn! And I am working on sharing them in a sewing blog that I started this year. You can take a look at The Imaginative Seamstress
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