So today I went to my mom's friends house because she told my mom that she is a professional seamstress and that she would be more than happy to help and teach me how to sew my Tohru Honda costume. I'm actually really thrilled because I majorly want to learn how to sew on my own and make cosplay costumes in the future.
I'm not saying that my mom is bad at sewing or anything, but she's forgotten how to make costumes properly that she thought it would be better if we go to her friend for help instead.
Which I think is a wonderful idea.
I mean, if I get sewing lessons from her, then I'll be able to sew on my own when I go to college next year. It's something that I've been meaning to do for years but I have had the ability to do it because I've always been lazy. But now since I know what cosplay is, it's like I want to sew like a mad person and make fantastic costumes.
Anyway, we didn't actually sewed today, we searched through her boxes, from the garage, for some really old patterns from the 60's for pleated skirts because Tohru's skirt is pleated and patterns like those are really hard to find these days. We also measured my body lengths and she said I'm quite a slim girl with buff shoulders (it's true, I have buff shoulders from swimming so much). And she was surprised that I wanted my skirt to be the same length as Tohru's because it's really short and I guess she was worried that if a breeze blew by, my skirt would probably flip over.
So we made decided to make the skirt at least 14 inches long, which is just 2 or 3 inches above my knees, and I'm okay with it. But that means I still have to wear spandax anyway to avoid catching people's gazes. Well, people will be gazing at me anyway because they'll be wondering why I'm dressed as a cute innocent school girl during the summer when it's not even Halloween yet.
But hey, it's cosplay :)
And yeah, that's how it went. I had a nice time with her and we plan on meeting again this week to actually start sewing and she's going to teach me. I'm so excited about that, that I just want to sneakily turn on my mom's sewing machine and sew like a mad person. Yeah, that's how excited I am.
But I do hope I'll learn great things from Ellen (that's her name btw) and become better at sewing because that's what I want to do from now on.
Well, I also want to paint and become an author too but those can wait in the future of my college life. For now, I just want to live my life and still be a young child (even though I'm not) learning new things.
