Procrastination : A Disease Which Lives In Every Human

The older you get, the more you find out more about yourself and that thing which keeps you going and happy. For me, it's clothing!!

 I've been keeping busy with learning new skill because, I believe a knowledge gotten is never of waste. I decided to learn how to make dresses, skirts, trousers and whatever is related to sewing and designing.
I used to assume that sewing was so easy.. I saw my mom take measurements of clients and she'd practically manage not to disappoint any of them. Looking at her attend to people and still manage her other business and workers, I felt it was something cinch.. Having gone through a little of what she used to encounter, I now have a change of thought. It's actually quite hard.

Do you know that for evey measurement and cloth your tailor makes for you, there's always mathematics involved. I literally didn't know about this till I made my first piece.

I might even add that some tailors are even more educated and mathematics inclined than most of the clients who visit their workplace. Endless division and subtraction are incorporated in the process of making a beautiful piece.

You need patience, energy and a good background in calculation to survive in this field. I wouldn't talk about the patience part because I can go on and on about it. Is it the breaking of the needle or the misbehavior of the thread or when you seem to miss a pattern and you'll sometimes have to loose the enter thing or................ It's not easy yo!

The good thing about it all is I'm getting to learn something I can actually relate to. Something I've being wanting to delve into but I keep procrastinating.

 So far, I think I've been a good student. I started last month, and I've being able to sew two Ankara skirts for myself. I made this decision because with handwork one will never have to beg for money.... or so I think. Hopefully, the oil in my lamp lasts for long to keep me going.