Last weekend my daughter’s school celebrated homecoming and I made her dress. This is the second homecoming dress that I’ve made her and NGL, I really did a great job. Like so great, I even said I would make two more homecoming dresses and I don’t feel like I bit off more than I can chew.
Goal: Make More Fancy Dresses
When I started the year, one of my silent goals for myself was to get better at making dressier attire. You know… like sequins, feathers and fine fabrics. I want to get better at making things that I don’t normally make. For my daughter’s dress, she sent me an inspiration photo and I was able to find a pattern that allowed me to customize it as needed.
After I made hers, her besties sister needed one for this weekend and so does my bonus baby so tomorrow I’m heading to the fabric store to grab what I need to make them. Now I’m not someone who normally sews for others.
These first two are the inspiration photos for my bonus baby and then the bottom two are for my daughters besties sister.
I don’t sew for others because of my nerves…
I’ve been sewing literally for most of my life. I sew well enough to teach. I sew well enough to design. I sew well enough to be a brand ambassador for the best sewing machines.
But it still makes me so anxious to sew for others. I do recognize how wild it sounds for me to be comfortable seeing the things I do really well while I feel like an imposter and others who haven’t been sewing as long are out here selling things… I’m working on it. I do also know that the things that I have made for others and sold haven’t received negative feedback so I don’t know why this anxiety has such a chokehold on me but I’m working to let it go.
The Principles in The Artist Way Have Been A Big Help
I started reading The Artist Way in the beginning of September. The target audience really seems to be writers and while I’m known as a sewist, I’m actually a writer lol! As in I’ve won a couple of awards for my writing. Not that I don’t want to write, but I’m really ready to let go of how I’m just in my own way of growth. Like I’m talented and have so much potential for growth and success if I would just stop overthinking, over analyzing and telling myself I can’t do it.
I’ve been doing these morning pages (we write 3 pages in a journal every morning) and they have been so helpful. Doing a brain dump first thing in the morning is so helpful. And the reason why makes so much sense. So often our brains are clogged with things to do, things we’re trying to remember, things we’re trying to forget, untruths about ourselves and more so taking the time to go ahead and flush it all out leaves space for creativity to grow and thrive.
I talked more about The Artist Way and my personal curriculum in this video here. I haven’t been doing the greatest with keeping up with my personal curriculum buuuuut I plan on making a change to that because the books I chose were really good.
How was your September? Can you believe that we’re entering the last quarter of the year?!!?
I started the book. I enjoy the journaling part of the process, but I am finding the tasks are dredging up too much deep trauma that I am not prepared to deal with right now. I went ahead and flipped through the take aways for each task and turned the book back into the library. I will try to keep up with the daily pages and work on the weekly tenants, but I need to be less deep with the introspection at this tome in my journey.
I always fail at the artists way. It’s the idea of doing three pages that gets me every time