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Originally posted by HuncaMunca
So, Sarah, where did you learn how to sew? Just amazes me how much you know!!!! Not just figuring it all out math-wise, but then to let it hang overnight?
The skirt turned out great 
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My mom taught me and she is a major perfectionist, unlike me. She would make me measure from the straight of grain line to the selvage and get it within a centimeter of perfect- and thats after we checked to see if the fabric needed to be stretched back to square in the first place. Then she would make me still have to hang the perfectly on grain thing up over night just in case so that the hem would be perfect- all this for pj pants! In all honestly I only mildly enjoyed sewing then, too much work. BUT I did learn all the things that could go wrong and how to avoid them. When I got preggo I suddenly really wanted to sew- but did it at my house and only asked my mom questions when I needed help. When I found AW these ladies stretched me eons and really helped me learn how to improvise, draft and create. I've always enjoyed math but with all the things that 'could go wrong' I was too scared to try it out on fabric till I got here.
So now I can draft something creatively, and think through all the 'dangers' to elimate as many prototypes as possible. I rarely sew a first draft that is unusable so I always use good fabric even when making my 'muslin'.
So there you have it; take one part perfectionist mother, one part homeschooled math class, two parts insane amount of desire, and one heaping part AW sewing forum guru's!
Sarah