My first blog! How exciting! Another outlet for me to happily babble all my inner thoughts and conflicts into written form, to share with the world. Hehehe!So...... you would think that I would have made the effort at least to plan out what I was going to write... but no, that is not generally my style? I'm too lazy for planning. So instead I will use today's blog to introduce myself a bit and describe what I would LIKE for this blog to be about. You never know? It may turn in to something else.
My whole life I have wanted to learn crafts. I have spent the last 10 years (at least), begging my Mum (and various other people) to teach me to knit, to no avail. I was taught the basic pearl and knit stitches about 11-12 years ago but I had no idea how to cast off or do anything with my new found talent, so I just made many unfinished unusable scarves that never were worn or finished because I did not know how to cast off :( I shall dub these "My never ending scarvesesesesesss". I gave up and have since forgotten how to even make one of those.
Today I am 28. I taught myself to sew this year, by doing that I now have started running a tutu skirt business from home. I am now selling in a shop!
I got my first sewing machine in May, and I was too scared to use it for a week... now, in July, I make money with it. :D
So, my mission is to keep learning! Spend this year learning how to make all the things that I always wanted to be taught how to do. I have the Internet! I have a world full of teachers just waiting to tell me how to make things! I really like recycling and up-cycling and I have discovered a lot of the "rules" for sewing/crafts don't necessarily need to be followed to complete a task. I am inherently lazy and like to make things easy for myself, I figure I can do that for other people too?
So, if you are new to craft. Want need ideas to play with, or want to see which of my tasks I fail or succeed in. Stay tuned, for there shall be many (hopefully more of the success) I have little to no experience with most craft activities. I do read blogs, watch YouTube and read books, I then go away for a few night,weeks, months and think about how I can make all those ideas work for me. I will link wherever possible if I am trying out someone else's idea.
Happy Crafting!
