Thursday, January 22, 2009

Fashion Sewing Is Now Yours

By Donna Trumble

Fashion is always a hot topic. People from France to England to the U.S. and beyond eagerly await the newest trends and styles. It is fun to see fashion shows or peruse fashion magazines. Every season brings new fashion ideas and styles.

What is even more fun than watching fashion, is creating your own. As one who sews, you are in a very enviable position. You can imitate the most current trends and styles, or create something distinctly your own. You are in control. Only your imagination holds you back. Watch the fashion trends, and then create.

Fashion and change appear to go hand in hand. Just about the time you get comfortable with the most current styles, they change. Trends come and go so fast it is really hard to keep up to date. Just as the new pops up, the current styles fade away.

Check the magazines for the newest trends in clothing and accessories. What do you see that is new? Do you see hints of the past? Isnt it amazing how often the fashion designers borrow from past styles and trends to create fresh new twists. Frequently, the best of the past is revived in new ways. Isnt it neat that you can pick and choose from all the possibilities to create your own special fashion statement?

The hottest fashion trends can be yours. Pick and choose the styles you really like, because you can make them your own. Examine how the items are made, and imitate or create.

Be bold. Be confident. The possibilities are within your grasp. You can always buy a new pattern, use an older pattern, or take a class in doing your own pattern design. There is software available to help you design your personalized patterns including Dressmaker or My Design.

Exactly, what kind of projects could you do? What about jackets, slacks, skirts, dresses, suits, belts, purses, blouses, and loads of embellished items? Your imagination is your only limitation. Think about how you could take simple projects and enhance them with special collars, cuffs, embroidery, or appliqu.

You may not be a famous French fashion designer, but you could create your own exciting fashion styles. Think of all the different things you could make. The possibilities are endless. You can start from scratch. You could imitate something you see. You could take a stock item and embellish it. The new fashion styles can be what you make them.

If it takes more than a few hours, some of us never get done. So, frequently, I will buy a cheap ready to wear garment and then do my thing. Since most ready to wear does not fit my body, I usually have to make some adjustments anyway. So, I do. With a touch of decorative threads, metallic embellishment, sparkles, changing a collar, or even embroidery, I take ordinary and turn it into extraordinary. As sewers, we can choose to design and sew from scratch or to transform a stock item. Either way, we are able to produce our own distinctive fashions.

Recycling is a popular theme today. By recycling what we find in our closet, we can create some amazing new styles. Take a visit to your closet. Look with a designers eye. What if you changed this on that? What if you added this to that? Just think a few minor alterations, enhancements, or embellishments could transform an old drab closet item into your latest style. Become the envy of your fashion world. Create. Remake.

Color is always important. The current trends may include grey, black, and red, but you can develop your own accents and combinations for your own special style.

Sewing has so many great benefits. Sewing relaxes us. Sewing gives us deep inner peace. Sewing expresses our creativity. Sewing builds our self confidence. Sewing satisfies our inner passions. Fashion Sewing empowers us to create our own styles with the colors, textures, fit, design, comfort, and personal statement like nothing else.

When you see that skirt at Dillards for $220, ask yourself, Could I make that? And then give yourself the answer you know is true. Yes, you can. Not only can you sew it, you can do it a much less cost. You can probably even improve on it. Then imagine the thrill when you over year your friends say, She must have spent a fortune.

Sewing use to be hard work. The machines were made like boat anchors and often rusted like one. Today, sewing with the new modern convenience rich sewing machines is a breeze. Amazing convenience features have been designed to make sewing easy, fun, and satisfying. Creating your own wonderful fashion projects has never been easier. So, what are you going to create today? - 15683

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