This weekend I busted out my sewing machine. I decided to transform a few pillow cases I bought at a garage sale for 25 cents into a 1920’s style dress.
With a little inspiration from @newdressaday, I felt ready to go. I don’t like to use patterns when I sew. I like to take a few dresses I already have and convert them into templates and guides to create a new outfit.
Once pieces are cut and penned together it’s time for my favorite part of the process, the actual sewing. I love the rhythmic sound the machine makes as I sew the stitches. The hymn of the machine hypnotizes me and takes me away to a simpler time. In this age of smart phones, twitter feeds and instant gratification, I appreciate the process it takes to sew a dress. With a google search and couple clicks of the mouse I could purchase a 1920s dress, but there’s something calming about slowing down enough to get my creative juices flowing and make my own.
As I continue to look for work, I can’t help but be inspired by blogs that go viral, like www.newdressaday.com or the website that inspired the movie Julie and Julia, www.julieandjulia.com. I seem to have some similarities with the women who created both these blogs. Both were 29 when they started the blogs. (I will be 29 this November.) Both were also in times of transition professionally. Here I am, wondering what I’m going to do next and hoping to come up with that next big blog idea. I need a challenge that I could blog about that would be interesting enough draw in an audience. Any ideas? Any double dog dares? I’m ready for a challenge and I have about three months to think of one. Stay tuned.
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