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This is the bag tutorial I’m following to teach myself how to insert zippers etc. and just to get something done– I know enough about sewing that none of the stuff here is like, revolutionary, and I ostensibly could figure it out on my own, but having a kind of sew-along really helps me not get bogged down in things like “how big should it be” and “can i turn it inside out and if so which part do i leave open” , and it minimizes things like “oh shit i just made these pants into a tube by sewing the wrong two surfaces together why am i dumb”.
I also sort of feel like I can do an end-run around my total inability to get things done on my own. if I follow instructions on a website it’s almost like having someone working with me, and then I can do it and not second-guess myself. (Seriously, me doing major projects on my own often ends with me sitting motionless in the middle of a room strewn with debris, mentally reduced to wondering why do i exist, just for having the audacity of thinking I could do a multi-step process toward an uncertain outcome without a bulletproof plan and reason why. To say that I have failures of motivation is to severely understate matters.)
haha ha this sat in my drafts for two months and now i’m down to the wire and misplaced the zipper i was gonna use for the one, and finally finished the embroidered panel for the other, and tbh i just don’t even know. let’s try it. let’s make this work. please, brain, let me finish this fucking project.
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This is the bag tutorial I’m following to teach myself how to insert zippers etc. and just to get something done– I know enough about sewing that none of the stuff here is like, revolutionary, and I ostensibly could figure it out on my own, but having a kind of sew-along really helps me not get bogged down in things like “how big should it be” and “can i turn it inside out and if so which part do i leave open” , and it minimizes things like “oh shit i just made these pants into a tube by sewing the wrong two surfaces together why am i dumb”.
I also sort of feel like I can do an end-run around my total inability to get things done on my own. if I follow instructions on a website it’s almost like having someone working with me, and then I can do it and not second-guess myself. (Seriously, me doing major projects on my own often ends with me sitting motionless in the middle of a room strewn with debris, mentally reduced to wondering why do i exist, just for having the audacity of thinking I could do a multi-step process toward an uncertain outcome without a bulletproof plan and reason why. To say that I have failures of motivation is to severely understate matters.)
haha ha this sat in my drafts for two months and now i’m down to the wire and misplaced the zipper i was gonna use for the one, and finally finished the embroidered panel for the other, and tbh i just don’t even know. let’s try it. let’s make this work. please, brain, let me finish this fucking project.
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