Post by maria on Jul 25, 2014 12:33:54 GMT
Hi, glad to see this board ! I'm not hiding, I've just readopted my old childhood name, Maria, or Marie, depending on the speaker. I've was surrounded by Couture technique beginning the day I was born and I've sewn on a machine since a preteen. My mother, my sewing sisters, Claire Shaeffer and old sewing text books are my teachers.
To reintroduce myself to the sewing community, let me explain: on message boards and in blogs in the first decade of the 21st century I was known as MaryBeth. At that time I was heavily involved in our family business and even opened my own commercial sewing site as a subcontractor to my husband's company, making sewn Montessori materials sold world wide. Production sewing is tough work (!!!) and my goal was to be able to do custom work on the side. But side-swiped by cancer and other serious changes I am now at home full time and returning to the me that is, without the need to put forth a business persona, a flowering in adversity. Thank goodness !
At the moment I am making silk purses from sow's ears, the dreaded Home Dec on very little budget, sewing from the stash. I'm "inventive" and tho I've been certified as a sewing instructor I don't always do things the same way as other "experts". Many techniques are latent in my mind's eye from my Mother's sewing table and quite different from what is being "taught" on the web these days. I produce by the most logical method I can develop. I help where I can but I don't make big noises about my authority
I show my mistakes as well as my accomplishments, not shy that way. I guess that's me as I am.
Now to see if I can remember how to post on boards, eh?
To reintroduce myself to the sewing community, let me explain: on message boards and in blogs in the first decade of the 21st century I was known as MaryBeth. At that time I was heavily involved in our family business and even opened my own commercial sewing site as a subcontractor to my husband's company, making sewn Montessori materials sold world wide. Production sewing is tough work (!!!) and my goal was to be able to do custom work on the side. But side-swiped by cancer and other serious changes I am now at home full time and returning to the me that is, without the need to put forth a business persona, a flowering in adversity. Thank goodness !
At the moment I am making silk purses from sow's ears, the dreaded Home Dec on very little budget, sewing from the stash. I'm "inventive" and tho I've been certified as a sewing instructor I don't always do things the same way as other "experts". Many techniques are latent in my mind's eye from my Mother's sewing table and quite different from what is being "taught" on the web these days. I produce by the most logical method I can develop. I help where I can but I don't make big noises about my authority
I show my mistakes as well as my accomplishments, not shy that way. I guess that's me as I am. Now to see if I can remember how to post on boards, eh?