Hi! I'm curlygirl85! I've joined steemit because my inestimable brother-in-law (
A little bit about me, so I'm not quite faceless: I'm quite Christian, and I live at home with my parents and most of my 8 siblings. I've been homeschooled all the way, I hold a builders and a lead license, I like to garden and I'm unashamedly extroverted. This last doesn't mean I'm never shy, but I am surprised when people ask what I did for socialization growing up. Lol...
I want to use this platform as a kind of blog to document the different things I'm figuring out about sewing. I'm self-taught for the most part (something that will probably change soon as I'd really like to learn more how to flat pattern and drape, and hopefully fill in gaps in my sewing knowledge,) and perhaps this will be helpful to others who want to learn from my mistakes.
I learn a lot by trial and error and use old sheets and fabrics gifted to me for a lot of strange and sometimes totally impractical things, but I am fascinated most by methods of sewing used back when people did a lot of their own sewing. I hate wasting fabric (probably because I experiment a lot and don't want it to only be a theoretical project) and if you were sewing at a time when you might have had money for a total of three dresses as a middle to lower class lady, you wouldn't have wasted much. That's pretty early on in our history, and at the moment I know the most about mid 19th century clothing. American Civil War era, for the uninitiated. ;)
So, that's something about me. Thanks for stopping by!
