Salt and Vintage : Lifetime Sewing Recap

So for my first blog post I'd like to catch up on what I've been doing my whole life before being a real interweb blogstress. *ha!* Can you tell I'm a dork who doesn't know how to blog? mmm chronology.

I could tell some childhood anecdotes of when I first put needle and thread to cloth but that might bore people.......so here I go!

The year was 1996 and I made barbie pants out of some old socks. Then I think I progressed to using old clothes but did most of my sewing in secret. I don't recall my mother having a sewing machine growing up but she must have had one for all the princess halloween costumes and stuff. I took my one and only sewing lesson at age eleven, I made an appliqued pillow - Milennium-themed and flat as a square pancake! I guess I talked about it enough for 2 years because for my 13th birthday I got an interesting gift. My first sewing machine! Most kids I knew thought that was a rough gift...like getting socks when you really want a Fingernail Fun Salon Machine (still holding a grudge, Santa Claus). It's actually the same machine I use now....11 years later (sewing machine, that is).

Flash forward over the years I kept the ol' trusty machine in various rooms in the house, busting it out when I needed to. Plenty of halloween costumes, theatre costumes, mending, t-shirt surgery and quilts.

I went to art school at University for 4 wonderful years and here I am. Now you're caught up. (My artwork could be a blog on it's own...working on a website.. Help me?). After my school years of painting, drawing, sculpture and all-nighters...I guess I missed my sewing. I didn't know it, but I got the sewing fever as soon as I graduated last June.

Last summer I made 6 dresses, 2 blouses, a few infinity scarves, a pencil case and fell back in love with fabric.

Here's a few of the things from last summer. (excuse the plain hanger photos..they'll get better I swear)