Hello again, and welcome back to the Creative Maze. Today’s post concerns costume-making, as a certain member of my family wants to work in the film industry when she’s older, and has asked me to make some costumes for a film she wants to shoot in Scotland later this year. I thought it might be interesting to document the progress, and, hopefully, they’ll turn out alright!
Sewing has always been part of my life. My mum made dresses for me when I was a little girl, and knitted cardigans and jumpers too, and I wanted to have a go and be able to make wonderful things like she did. Mum taught me early on how to use her sewing machine. Sewing was just something we did, and I loved it. In fact, I don’t remember not sewing – I recall patching small pieces of fabric together, and trying to make little dresses for my dolls when I was quite young. It’s great that these sorts of skills are having such a huge resurgence at the moment, and I’m particularly enjoying the second series of The Great British Sewing Bee currently showing on the BBC. I think it’s so important to be able to divert from the digital in the modern world, don't you? Anyway, I digress, so back to the costumes...
