After sewing a few type of clothes, I feel like I must accept the fact that some designs of mine that I intended for my dolls can't be realized without any slight modification, whether it's technical or not.
Doll clothes are quite small that sometimes, some darts must be gone, neckline must be 'outside' covered...can't always use inside layer/cover because it's too small...Or designs that I would like to use chiffon or silk, perhaps, I should just use 'fancy' texture thin cotton and so on and so on and so on. This is after seeing a lot of clothes out there in the market.
Improvement definitely takes time. My learning was just begun a while ago...So, I can't really rush myself to achieve the highest skill level in sewing for doll clothes. My plan is to sell my doll clothes in 2010 and if I keep R&D-ing only too long, I won't be able to do that. I'll go to the farthest I can and make some decent clothes to sell while doing R&D-ing again. I will reduce R&D-ing speed as some basic clothes to check out the pattern and so son are done. I must do that because I don't want to learn too long. I did that when sewing clothes. Learning, learning, learning...in my head LEARNING! Too much learning had made me lost confident in sewing for selling purpose (but I'm pretty easy (easier than before, I mean...)with it right now)...
Sometimes I feel like learning something is like swimming: i can't just sit in the class learning a whole bunch of theories that when I face the water, I don't have any confidence to apply the theory. Just jump into the water and learn while in there. Learning is good but without real application, it's worthless. How l...ong am I going to learn without applying my knowledge? (^o^) Gosh, it's gotta be boring and I'd be getting clueless, too
Doll clothes are quite small that sometimes, some darts must be gone, neckline must be 'outside' covered...can't always use inside layer/cover because it's too small...Or designs that I would like to use chiffon or silk, perhaps, I should just use 'fancy' texture thin cotton and so on and so on and so on. This is after seeing a lot of clothes out there in the market.
Improvement definitely takes time. My learning was just begun a while ago...So, I can't really rush myself to achieve the highest skill level in sewing for doll clothes. My plan is to sell my doll clothes in 2010 and if I keep R&D-ing only too long, I won't be able to do that. I'll go to the farthest I can and make some decent clothes to sell while doing R&D-ing again. I will reduce R&D-ing speed as some basic clothes to check out the pattern and so son are done. I must do that because I don't want to learn too long. I did that when sewing clothes. Learning, learning, learning...in my head LEARNING! Too much learning had made me lost confident in sewing for selling purpose (but I'm pretty easy (easier than before, I mean...)with it right now)...
Sometimes I feel like learning something is like swimming: i can't just sit in the class learning a whole bunch of theories that when I face the water, I don't have any confidence to apply the theory. Just jump into the water and learn while in there. Learning is good but without real application, it's worthless. How l...ong am I going to learn without applying my knowledge? (^o^) Gosh, it's gotta be boring and I'd be getting clueless, too
(^.^) cherio,
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