(I've even Googled "sewing jersey knit" before, but everything just says "buy a serger" which I don't want to do.)
I have had no formal construction instruction outside of a 4-H class when I was eight! One of the biggest... irritants of my college career, well, besides all the other ones, was the fact they forced me to take design instead of construction. So I got to listen to a really flaky professor crap on about ART and IDEAS (and, when she ever actually taught, just rehashed Victorian stuff I already knew about) annnnnnnnnnddddddddddddd meanwhile, the construction class had an awesome teacher who explained everything and they got all sorts of cool hands-on practice in.
The design professor was honestly downright horrible. "I want to do this for my final project." "No." "Okay, how about this?" "No." "... sigh, do you want to just tell me what I'm doing for my final project?" "Yep! You're doing This! It will be cool, despite you having no interest in it!" (We had to costume design Shakespeare based on fashion specific to a country. I couldn't do Japanese street fashion because someone else was doing Edo era. So she just TOLD me which country and play to do -- AUSTRALIA. Because nothing says distinctive national costume like freaking Australia! I got mad and just set it all in the damn Dreamtime, which of course, was praised for being ~creative~. I was so angry.)
And because of scheduling, I never did get to take the construction class. Sigh.
SO UM! YES! Not to revisit the Great Failures of My Past, but my technical construction often sucks! Feel free to point out any seemingly obvious stuff to me, because LEARNING IS AWESOME!
I wanna go buy a ball-point needle... I nearly peed myself the first time I actually used a double-needle correctly. So easy!
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Date: 2009-09-11 06:47 am (UTC)I HAD NO CLUE THANK YOU SO MUCH
(I've even Googled "sewing jersey knit" before, but everything just says "buy a serger" which I don't want to do.)
I have had no formal construction instruction outside of a 4-H class when I was eight! One of the biggest... irritants of my college career, well, besides all the other ones, was the fact they forced me to take design instead of construction. So I got to listen to a really flaky professor crap on about ART and IDEAS (and, when she ever actually taught, just rehashed Victorian stuff I already knew about) annnnnnnnnnddddddddddddd meanwhile, the construction class had an awesome teacher who explained everything and they got all sorts of cool hands-on practice in.
The design professor was honestly downright horrible. "I want to do this for my final project." "No." "Okay, how about this?" "No." "... sigh, do you want to just tell me what I'm doing for my final project?" "Yep! You're doing This! It will be cool, despite you having no interest in it!" (We had to costume design Shakespeare based on fashion specific to a country. I couldn't do Japanese street fashion because someone else was doing Edo era. So she just TOLD me which country and play to do -- AUSTRALIA. Because nothing says distinctive national costume like freaking Australia! I got mad and just set it all in the damn Dreamtime, which of course, was praised for being ~creative~. I was so angry.)
And because of scheduling, I never did get to take the construction class. Sigh.
SO UM! YES! Not to revisit the Great Failures of My Past, but my technical construction often sucks! Feel free to point out any seemingly obvious stuff to me, because LEARNING IS AWESOME!
I wanna go buy a ball-point needle... I nearly peed myself the first time I actually used a double-needle correctly. So easy!