Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
This reminds me if my first few sewing projects, where I tried to make a cactus out of felt and wondered why I was left with a malformed lump. It took me about 5 plushes of various lumpyness before I learned why strech matters in fabric. It was a similar process learning embroidery and especially satin stitches (my nemisis from the start). Needlework is truly an artform fucking up to success -w-
Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry