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I’m taking Brooks Ann Camper’s Skirt Skills Custom Sewing class. Yesterday I put together my notebook for the class.
My goal is to use stuff I already have as much as possible so long as my experience doesn’t suffer for it.
Here are some photos! Notebook cover, pencil box, sketch paper.



ππ§΅ Read Just Make it Already! How to Boost Your Sewing Confidence.
Brooks Ann Camper includes this as a bonus link in the orientation for Skirt Skills, which I’m taking right now. It’s exactly what recovering perfectionists need to heal & works for any creative endeavor.
It’s very Kimberly that I just had a nightmare in which the nightmarish occurrence was that the public library had pushed the YA bookshelves so close together that they were inaccessible. π
π§΅ I made a pillow! Well, I covered a pillow. I used instructions from the Sewing 10 class from Brit + Co. My seams were so wobbly that I actually had to go back and hand sew a gap closed. I used a messy whip stitch to finish it but I’ve hidden the seam on the bottom here.
ππ¬ “When no help comes from outside, a lost crop becomes a famine.” Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Finished reading: Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky π
Another delight from Timothy Janovsky. Full review coming soon!
Finished reading: Idol by Kristen Callihan ππ§