Sometimes what we see has been unnecessary or termed been tedious most times end up becoming blessings in disguise for us. Fortunately that was also my experience here on Hive because when I got onboarded I almost gave up but I thank my star for making me persevere and I'm enjoying Hive till date.
So times without number I've always say in my post that I'm a lady that loves soft life馃ぃ, who doesn't anyways? I don't like anything stressful at all. I'm an easy going person who always mind the way I relate with others or do my things but can't be taken for granted because once I'm troubled either by anyone or a thing I get frustrated so easily which can lead to provocation.
So the main reason I learnt sewing skill was to prevent arguments with tailors. I'm part of those that was frustrated by tailors while I was much younger. I hated sewing clothes cause my clothes always end up been spoilt, it either the tailor forgets my styles or disappoint me.
So I made up my mind during my University days to learn tailoring come what may, even if I don't sew for business I will be sewing my personal clothes at my convenience.
Learning this skill wasn't easy for me at all, because the first time I peddled a sewing machine ehhhhh it was as if my legs ran marathon race. When I got home, I was so tired and people were asking me what went wrong.
Peddling the machine was difficult in which I was peddling it to the opposite direction which was cutting the machine threads. Other apprentice there were just laughing at me cause in my mind I was like peddling a machine is an easy thing to do not until I tried it then I knew not all things comes easily without learning and putting in effort.
Then unto the most difficult part of tailoring which is fabric cutting, at this stage I felt like quiting cause it was so difficult to understand. Most times, I do cut the front part of the clothes into two馃ぃ not knowing it's the front or forgetting to add zip allowance to the back of the cloth I'm cutting.
I wasted lots of fabrics all in the name of practicing, as in my sewing was just terrible and sometimes I don't even get it at all. There was a day I got fed up but I encouraged myself that I won't give up till I get it.
At the long run, I got the basics and with the help of online trainings I'm able to sew conveniently for myself and family members. I still have it in mind to go for advance sewing class to improve my sewing skills once I'm transfered back to the city from my place of work but with the little knowledge I have in sewing, I'm not doing bad at all couple with the fact that I have a personal sewing machine that I use.
Once I see a style, I go straight to YouTube to learn the cutting then try it out on my pattern paper before cutting on my fabric. It's been 6years now that I haven't pay a dime to anyone to help me sew my clothes, I do it myself at my convenience.
It has been a blessing unto me and it has become a great thing in my life because nowadays, tailors charges people exorbitantly because of the drastic increase in the prices of sewing materials and other necessary things needed for sewing.
Learning this skill was a blessing in disguise for me, even though the difficulties I went through while I was learning almost weigh me down to quit but with determinations I was able to pull through and I didn't regret it at all.
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