How a Home Economics teacher almost killed my passion for sewing!

So by the title of this blog your thinking WOW, how could that happen.  But happen it did.  I consider myself a self taught sewer because of this teacher.  She was the kind of person who didn't have a filter on her mouth.  One of the requirements for the class for your final grade was to participate in a fashion show at the end of the quarter.  Well lets just say I didn't participate.  Now granted I made a great looking pair of coullots that were in a denium type fabric that had a strip on them going vertical and horizontal so was considered a plaid and had to be matched up, (I had had a plaid the previous year and was hoping to avoid the match up process and begged my mom not to get a plaid and techniquly it wasn't but according to the teacher it was.  UGH!!! Matching again.)

 Got through that, got the things made and had to go in one day during lunch hour to get the waist band button marked so I could make a button hole and sew on the botton. Well lets just say the teacher called me FAT (a size 14, is not fat but at the age of 13 its devestating for someone in authority to call a student that)  Well she marked everything and I finished my project, but because of that comment I refused to attend the fashion show and of course got a lower grade, I think a C-.

  From that day on and for the next 10 years I didn't touch a sewing machine in any way shape or form, I couldn't, I hated sewing.  Then, one day I realized it wasn't sewing I hated it was the teacher.  And so I started on an adventure of teaching myself to sew, and have thouroughly enjoyed every minute of it.  I really love reading books on coutoure sewing techniques and try to add some touch of coutour into every garment I make whether for myself or for someone else.  I feel these touches whether a hong kong seam finish or a jacket weight make the item that much more special. 

So there is the story of how a homeec teacher almost killed a dream even before it began.  Important note to teachers mind what you say to your students they take everything to heart.  Happy Sewing everyone.  More posts to follow.  Have lots of ideas in my notebook.