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Comment on Roadtrips & Vlogging Tips by Katie

Katie — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:36:56 +0000

That sounds completely normal to me! I love listening to frogs. We went on a walk the other day and spent about five minutes near a particularly froggy swamp, listening to the different frogs. It was fabulous!

Comment on Roadtrips & Vlogging Tips by Dianne

Dianne — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:15:06 +0000

Hi Katie, lovely to see and hear about your road trip and sewing! Particularly loved the birds and the frog noises – I have a recording app on my phone which has a minute of frog noises on it I recorded near Lakes Entrance a couple of years ago -mad or what!?!

Comment on Roadtrips & Vlogging Tips by Katie

Katie — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:41:27 +0000

Thanks, Cassandra! Hopefully we’ll visit plenty of fun places on this ride. 😀

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Katie

Katie — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 04:40:48 +0000

Sometimes it’s as though we’re adopting fabric, isn’t it? We can’t bear to leave a particularly nice piece behind, especially not when we can see what a lovely piece of clothing it would make. I think each piece of fabric has a bit of a personality, too, which makes even harder to think of parting with it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Aliza. 🙂

Comment on Roadtrips & Vlogging Tips by Cassandra

Cassandra — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:13:08 +0000

Hey, it sounds like a fun ride to me! I’m in…let’s see where it takes you.
Cassandra

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Aliza

Aliza — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 20:40:25 +0000

I have a variant of your problem – while almost all of the fabrics I buy are ones I truly want to wear (I only buy fabric if I know what it wants to be when it grows up – the specific garment), I buy far more fabric than I can possibly ever sew. And if it’s a particularly lovely fabric or a project that scares me, then I never seem to see it but can’t dream of getting rid of it. Which i am fully aware is quite silly!!
PS we have very similar taste

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Katie

Katie — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 01:59:15 +0000

Yes, that happened to me so many times! I keep going through my stash and thinking, “Oh yeah, I was going to make that thing out of this fabric!”

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Sheryll

Sheryll — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 18:56:14 +0000

I usually buy fabric with something in mind for it, but change my mind half the time! Or before I know it the season is over and it languishes in stash for a year or more. But at least fabric keeps, and if you hold onto it long enough it comes back into fashion again!

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Katie

Katie — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 01:53:42 +0000

You’re absolutely right! When you start sewing, everything is new and fun and you want to try all of the things – and buying fabric can be one of the most enjoyable parts of that. Walking into a fabric store is like stumbling across a treasure trove! It’s exciting and shiny and just a little bit overwhelming. The comparison to buying clothes is a good one; I know I bought clothes that I didn’t exactly love until I hit on my style. In a way, it’s been good to re-visit that approach to style because it’s easy to remember what I liked back then and translate that to sewing.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Sonja. 🙂

Comment on Sewing and Stashing: A Tale of Two Hobbies by Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 05:41:06 +0000

When I started sewing my own clothes almost five years ago I found out there weren’t many fabric shops. So when I saw fabrics I liked I striated buying them. After sewing for a year or two some of the stash fabrics seemed not to be my taste (fabric type or colours). I think it’s a bit finding your way and learning juts like you did when you started building a wardrobe when you buy RTW. Many buyers of RTW do buy clothes they barely wear because when they come home it doesn’t have that appeal anymore that it had in the shop. I’ve found my colours (blue and black-white as basics), fabric types (denims, jersey and cottons) and style (no vintage but asymmetrical and unusual designs) after sewing three years all kind of clothes and styles.