Five Questions One Take

I had a completely different video for this week, it will just have to wait for next week. I watch other YouTube channels. How can you not!? Some of those other channels are so good, and you learn so much. As I watched Whitney from Tom Kat Stitchery on Tuesday, she talked about sharing these five questions in one take. One take as in no editing. Yes we have to edit our videos. The dog barks, the plane sounds like its about to land on top of my roof (I live close to an airport) or I goof up some instruction during a sew along and I have to edit the videos. So this was just answer five questions and do it all in one take. I’m game for a challenge.

I said I was going to post pictures of my former life as an event designer or event florist. Just so you get an idea of what my former life and what it involved…. yes I made curtains for this job, I made more pillows than I would care to tell you about. I even sewed a couple of tallits for a chuppah (jewish friends you know what those are)…. by hand. So I sewed but not to the degree that I do now. I will say this, I have purchased enough fabric to last me for a lifetime.

So I was a little busy with another creative endeavor, now that it’s done and I’m sewing full steam ahead I was able to save a few things from my old studio like my design table. I love that thing and we have been together almost 15 years. My husband had it made and I just had it refinished, so it looks like new. Its also on wheels so it can move anywhere within the space.

I also saved some of my satin ribbons on which I can use for bias tape or my green jadeite collection that holds a lot of my notions. I try to keep a fairly clean sewing studio. If you can’t find what you are looking for then you are wasting time.

All of my patterns and fabric are behind that wall to the right hand side. I try not to keep a lot of fabric. One… it becomes overwhelming and two if you buy too much fabric you may have a lot of waste if you don’t pair a pattern to it. So I try to limit that as much as possible. I do need to take some time and start cataloguing all my patterns. I just haven’t had time or have a found a good way to keep track of all of them.

Everything must have a place! I love having lots of empty areas so I can lay my patterns after I’ve cut them or put projects that I’m working on at the time. I have a sewing machine and one serger. That’s it. My first sewing machine is tucked behind the wall in its original carrying case. It was a good starter machine. Now I use it to do some topstitching or use it for not so great things like …. sequins were I don’t want to use my Bernette.

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