learning to sew necessary???

wellwellwell
Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:04:15 +0000

Thanks everyone for your inputs…

@Bears, actually, she always wanted to learn to sew but I don’t (though I could hand sew quite well) and my mom doesn’t so she had to take a class or watch a youtube video (which doesn’t explain quite well) to learn. She got herself a sewing machine over the summer (thanks for the offer but we live in California) and was registered for a basic sewing class at Joann but her ankle was injured badly during cheer practice and had to be in aircast with crutches so had to drop out. Maybe for someone like you it could be hard to understand, but it is a very daunting task if you have no one around you who knows how to use or even own a machine.

@fineartmajormom, I guess I will sign her up again for a class. She always wanted to learn since she got frustrated with limited things she could do manually.

@colcon2010, I don’t know much about fashion designing but I thought the same about your remark “understanding the inherent qualities of each type of fabric” will benefit her much in the long run. Actually, she wanted to become a stylist more than a designer until now and she got the idea from watching her aunt who’s a buyer at a high end women’s clothes brand in NYC. She didn’t want to do exactly what my sister does since that is involving more business side of industry but she wanted to do something in creative side of industry. And to do that, learning fashion design would be the basic step she thought.

I thought she’s still young and quite interested in other design fields (stage design and so on) so while studying the basic art skills and maturing her eyes and mind in seeing and creating something, she might change her mind in what she wants to do later on in her life. Anyway, so for someone like her, who’s not definite about the career choice, I wanted to find out how much sewing skills she needs to have to study fashion designing.

Sorry for the long post…