It’s no secret that I love sewing. Anytime you need me, I can almost guarantee I will be in my sewing room. It’s where I go to lose myself for a few hours, and I almost always come out happier than when I went in. I mean, we all have sewing disaster days. Those days where no matter what we do, nothing goes right. It can be very difficult to walk away on those days, we have an idea in our heads and nothing will stop us from producing…something.
This is one of those “somethings”. I had an idea to make a “pin the nose on the snowman” game for the kids’ Christmas Party. This terrifying little shit is the outcome. This isn’t even the first draft! I laugh about it now, and kids being kids, they absolutely loved it and refused to let me take it apart for spares.
I was looking for a picture of a terrifying teddy I made, but it appears I have deleted that! It’s probably for the best, although that has also ended up in one of the kids’ rooms. Along with a dog whose tail is between its legs entirely the wrong way, sparking hilarity on anyone who looks upon it.
This is the joy of sewing for me, I am still learning, there are many techniques I definitely need to practice! I have created some out and out disasters, but with every disaster, there has been a lesson learned. I learned never to attempt to create a snowman without at least drawing a pattern idea out first. I learned that it’s very important where to place darts to control the direction of a point, lest you wish to make an 8-year-old boy’s day by giving his dog a ‘willy’. I learned that it doesn’t matter what it looks like, your kids will love it unconditionally. (This is the same for you, by the way. Kids don’t care what you look like, they just love you, with all your squishy cuddliness!). Most of all though, I learned to enjoy the process. Embrace those disasters, because even the days when everything seems to be against you, you’re still spending it in your happy space, creating…something.