Sewing adventures ...

While I was blog surfing a month or so ago, I came across Freckled Nest's 'Home Ec' Class.

It was just the thing I was looking for. Tutorials stay up online for a whole year! And if you run into trouble you can always ask the teachers via chat or comments section. There is even a 'student's lounge' on flickr where we can show each other what we made and talk about all things sewing :)
I have tried to learn sewing a couple of times. Each time, I enrolled into some 1 week class at Spotlight or Lincraft, only to have them tell me to pick a simple pattern and some material and sit at a machine and off we go. I found it really hard without knowing much about the sewing machine I was using, not much useful help, and trying to read a pattern straight away.

This is what's different with these tutorials from Freckled Nest. They start off with the most basic of projects and in each project you learn a different skill. It makes much more sense to learn that way. Plus you don't even learn how to read a pattern till towards the end of the course. I have only finished one project so far. It went okay I think, I did get better as I went along, but the ric rac edging was a bit of a challenge. Trying to sew straight, was much harder than I thought!

Anyway, here is a pic of my first project.

spotty and stripey napkins :)

The next project is going to have some odd looking fabric. (I am just using old scraps etc) But I have no idea how it's going to go so don't want to buy any fabulous fabrics just yet :)