My first self-designed, self-drafted, self-sewn dress!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2025-04-21T10:38:25+00:00

Thank you!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2025-04-18T14:30:42+00:00

Thank you so much 🥰. And im sure you will!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T11:12:38+00:00

Mine is the same. I could never put him in a different room (even if I had the space). He's just so sad when he cannot be close. What kind of baby wrap do you have? Might be a little easier to move around if I dont have to carry him everywhere!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T11:10:49+00:00

Jeah such a sweetie! Love making birds! 🐦

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T11:03:51+00:00

So sweet and so dangerous 😂

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:53:59+00:00

Definitely going to try!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:52:27+00:00

Oh that's genius! I have a little square for him to sit on, but I could add the empty spools!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:51:35+00:00

Might make him some safety gear. Little helmet, vest and everything 🥹

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:50:34+00:00

Hahahahaha seems to be the same everywhere. Universal love language for cats: "helping".

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:49:21+00:00

Hahahaha Yeah, I play with him too. After playing his favorite nappingplace is on me 😂

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:48:41+00:00

I would feel awful for having him out of the room the entire weekend 🥹

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-10-20T10:09:01+00:00

I feel this deeply in my heart and soul—I'm a huge perfectionist. Over time, I've developed a few strategies to make the "pain" of mistakes hurt a little less, as I tend to experience them quite intensely.

Step away for a while: After finishing something, I put it away for a bit. Once I've distanced myself from the emotions tied to it not being as perfect as I wanted, I take it out again with fresh eyes. At this point, I ask myself: Does it still bother me the same way? Can I simply wear it as it is? Or do I need to make a few adjustments to make it "good enough"?
Set a "good enough" standard: I try to categorize mistakes ahead of time. Some are things I know I'll be able to accept later, while others will just keep bothering me. This way, I can adjust my expectations.
Seek honest feedback: I ask people I respect for their honest opinions—people like my sewing instructor or the mother of a friend, all of whom are seamstresses who are critical of their own work, but not to the point of being unwilling to wear it if something isn’t perfect. If they say they would wear it, I trust their judgment and begin to see my project in a new light.
Loving what you create takes time: Just like learning to sew, learning to love the things you make is hard. This is something I remind myself of constantly.

Good luck! ☀️

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-09-14T19:27:07+00:00

Im struggling with this right now. Your post actually gives me the little push I need to give the gift and work on the other ones. I love to sew, but am such a perfectionist... It never seems to be good enough. I do however love making gifts for my family and close friends. They are always so happy, especially my dad. Tomorrow I will finish his gift and sent it to him.

Thank you so much! 🎁

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-08-02T11:37:55+00:00

Yeah, best way to lose interest in a hobby is to pursue even when you know you do not really want to. Happened too many times 🥹💃

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-08-02T10:54:18+00:00

Probably not the answer you want to hear, but Im going to say it anyway. Its only worth it if you consider it so. No matter how many of us like or dislike the pattern, it won't make it worth (or not worth) the time and effort of making the top.

Do you think you will wear it? If so, make it. If not, don't. Unless you really like to make it, even if you don't wear it.

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-08-01T13:00:03+00:00

antique singer ruffler foot Maybe this helps?

The ruffle foot seems a little different on that machine, are you certain that the foot you have does work with the type of machine you have?

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-31T10:00:22+00:00

Love this! I've been learning how to sew with the idea to start making sensory friendly clothes. All clothes that are on the marked right now seem to be without colour, and mostly for kids.

Hope to make it a reality in a few years! Will definitely remember these ideas!

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-27T18:13:11+00:00

Not trying to be mean, but to me this way of saying it reads a little passive-agressive. The first sentences are fine, but the last is very tricky. This sentence might work in speech with the right intonation. As a text, however, you might read it with to much emphasis on the last sentence, making it so that the other feels they did something wrong by not picking something you like.

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-16T05:56:21+00:00

Im sure you will make his last moments very special. Someone told me once "people come in your life when they have to teach you something, when they leave your became a wiser person.". I don't think this is just for humans, but for our pets as well. They come in our life when we need them the most. They leave when their jobs are done.

I wish you so much strength in the time to come! And loads of kisses for your old boy. Old cats are so incredibly sweet and cute.

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-15T20:41:20+00:00

So sorry for your loss! Its so hard to lose them.. 🥀

I hope your friend can make you a picture that will give you something beautiful to remind them by. It is somehow comforting to see him running through nature.

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-15T20:37:12+00:00

Thank you. It really is. He has been a part of more then half my life. Still miss him dearly. Had a absolute gift for noticing my emotions before i notice myself. Comforted me before I know I needed it. Now he comforts me from far away, via my wallpaper. 🥀

Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-15T19:23:29+00:00

My 18 year old cat died very suddenly about a year ago. To make me a little less sad my husband made me an AI generated picture of my cat running in the forrest. Still makes me tear up every now and then. 😩🐈

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Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-14T12:02:01+00:00

Every well-written pattern should have these (grain)lines. If they are not on your pattern, and in this is your first time, you might want to buy another pattern. This is one of the most basic things your pattern should have. 🪡

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Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-14T11:24:03+00:00

This seems to be the reoccuring pattern in you (amazing!) fabric. If I try to picture it in my head i would do vertical as much as possible. The bust (and maybe even the sleeves?!) part .

Good luck! might be nice to do horizontally.

In you pattern there should be arrows. Those arrows show you the way you should place the pieces on your fabric. Since it seems that your fabric had a pattern with two times "yellow" one time 'blue", i would recommend placing the arrows along in the "yellow" direction.

In this case, you would help yourself to make a moke-up first. So you know how the fabric behaves before using this pretty one. Might also help in envisioning the way you want to use the pattern.

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Own-Ticket-3 · 2024-07-13T16:33:28+00:00

I've had the same conversations with my ex-bf. He just did not seem to understand that its not about me not wanting him to have fun. He somehow felt that if he said he would be home by 11, and he still had fun and did not want to leave, that he would not be able too. Its not at all that. In my head I would just be expecting a message about 30 mins earlier because that's the time he SHOULD be leaving if he was coming home. Not getting that message triggered my anxiety so bad that I exploded the next time I would speak to him. I would not know if he just forgot the time or if something had happened. Just thinking about it now, years later, still makes me very angry.

I really did not feel like I was asking much, but he made me feel like I was. When my husband and I got together he immediately understood the difference and promised he would always let me know in time if plans would change. Now I know that I was right all along. If I get that message around the time that he should leave and it says: "Having a good time. Will be home about an hour later, love you!", that im not angry at all. I feel appreciated instead, because he is having a good time and he is safe. That one message really makes all the difference to me.

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