To my delight (and relief) the course contained 8 other like minded ladies, all of whom were friendly and eager to learn, and most importantly, with limited sewing skills like myself.
The course was led by a lovely lady, with bags of industry experience - 'sewing since she was eight' (and yes, you might have guessed reader, I have forgotten her name) and made us all feel instantly at ease. After going through our patterns and materials, we spent an hour or so, deciphering dress/skirt/top patterns, and yes I do mean deciphering. I have a degree and several post grad qualifications but definitely needed step by step guidance. It was then onto explaining tacking and a few other stitches, before starting at the machine itself.
One of the things this course has going for it, is that you do just get stuck in. Unlike a course, spread over six weeks or so, where you may spend the first two on theory, this is straight onto the machine and straight into making the mistakes! Luckily we practised on scrap bits of material.
I have to say, when being shown how to thread our machine, it all came flooding back to me, from the days of Mrs Southgate in the textiles room at school.
Without giving you all a blow by blow account of every stitch, the course was great. But exhausting! It think I mentioned in my profile that work hasn't been going that well and that I've been feeling de-motivated and unfulfilled. Well, I sat there in front of that machine, having more fun working on a project than I could remember for a while. It was like, suddenly I remembered what it was like to do something and enjoy it - amazing!
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