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Oh, yeah.
Nothing like a new sewing project to remind me of how incompetent I am.
Every time I finish a sewing project, I rapidly forget how much I don't like sewing, and how frustrating it is, and how not-good I am at it. I'm passable, but that's really not good enough - my perfectionist soul demands more, and my novice fingers can't deliver yet. So I curse and I pound the table in frustration, and I pin and I stitch and I rip out and re-pin and make things worse, and I stitch again.
Sewing living things is so much easier than sewing fabric. Skin heals, skin stretches, skin is incredibly forgiving. If you're sewing skin and the edges don't quite meet, you can just tug a little this way, and push a little that way, and if there's a little pucker at the corner, well, it'll stretch and grow and heal and in a few weeks it'll look as good as new. Once you cut fabric, it stays cut forever. If the seams are bunchy, that'll never go away, not even with antibiotics and Vitamin E oil.
On the other hand, fabric doesn't bleed, and you don't have to worry about your dress dying under anesthesia. Still, on the whole, I think I much prefer stitching things that will eventually grow back together with a little encouragement....
Nothing like a new sewing project to remind me of how incompetent I am.
Every time I finish a sewing project, I rapidly forget how much I don't like sewing, and how frustrating it is, and how not-good I am at it. I'm passable, but that's really not good enough - my perfectionist soul demands more, and my novice fingers can't deliver yet. So I curse and I pound the table in frustration, and I pin and I stitch and I rip out and re-pin and make things worse, and I stitch again.
Sewing living things is so much easier than sewing fabric. Skin heals, skin stretches, skin is incredibly forgiving. If you're sewing skin and the edges don't quite meet, you can just tug a little this way, and push a little that way, and if there's a little pucker at the corner, well, it'll stretch and grow and heal and in a few weeks it'll look as good as new. Once you cut fabric, it stays cut forever. If the seams are bunchy, that'll never go away, not even with antibiotics and Vitamin E oil.
On the other hand, fabric doesn't bleed, and you don't have to worry about your dress dying under anesthesia. Still, on the whole, I think I much prefer stitching things that will eventually grow back together with a little encouragement....
