Learn how to sew, crochet and knit

...which is French for Blouse. Hehe. Blouse in French sounds like Blues or Blooze.

I started about 2 weeks ago. We took our measurments, cut out and rectified the pattern. I bought my fabric last Tuesday (April 11, 2006). It’s not great looking but it’ll do for my first Blouse. It’s denim but a weird kinda blue. Who knows, it might turn out ok.

It’s not perfect but it’s my first one and I’m proud of it! :)

There’s a lot of hard work into it. Sometimes I was ready to pull my hair out. The teacher said I picked a fabric that was hard to work with. It was too thin. I was trying to pick a more natural fabric that looked nice and that was made for summer and looked summer-like.

The last class is this Tuesday (March 28, 2006) and then the next course (the Blouse) is the week after. Ooooh, I can’t wait!

I’ll take a picture of it when it’s done and post it on here.

I’ll be starting the second sewing course called Jupe (French for skirt). We will learn to do a skirt. I hope I’m not too rusty, my last course, “Introduction to Sewing” was back in March 2005. I had wanted to take it in September 2005 but had no money. This time I had said that I was going to wait also but they told me I could do payments (like 26$ every course) and I was like: “Yeah, ok, I’ll do that, I’m taking the course”. I’m mean I gotta take it some time and I shoudn’t wait too long, I forget easily and fast. Now that I have a sewing machine (a gift from my mom’s boyfriend), I’ll be able to practice all day after the course. That’s another great thing about this class, it’s at 9 AM, so I have all day to practice (If I’m not working after the class). Before it used to be at 5 PM and by the time I’d get home (by bus) it’d be like 9 PM almost 9:30.

I remember the first time I wanted to learn how to knit. I was in my teens and I saw a commercial, an elderly woman was knitting something, then, when she was done, she drop it off at a hospital. She was knitting baby clothes for newborns and I thought that was the most incredible thing and I was like “Wow, I want to do that”. Unfortunatelly, I did not know how to go about learn how to knit, nor did I have the money and so I never learned. But that’s all about to change. :D

I have already taken one sewing course (Introduction to sewing-12 classes) which ended last March 2005. I had wanted to take a course for so long put I keep putting it off. Then I learn a friend of mine was starting a sewing course and I was like “Really? I’ve been meaning take a sewing course!” and she was like “Why don’t you sign up for it and we could take the course together? and so I did and I was so glad I finally did it. I am not an expert but I am going to take the 2nd course which will start in September 2005. I could have taken the course back in April 2005 but did not have the money just yet, which is another thing on my list, save money! :) ~ Later comes the crocheting and knitting.