Sewing is one of the oldest Textile art. It’s an interesting art and skill.
it is form of art to learn, where you use needle and thread to express your creative skills, thoughts, and oneself. It is one art/hobby/passion, which can be turned profitable from the basic stitches itself. Learner or Experienced, it’s all matter of stitching technique and hand stitches. Just a love towards this art, is enough to bring creativeness from you. And anytime you can turn this into profitable. This is one passion that allows to be more creative in every step that you do.
It is also called a life skill, which save you both time and money. Apart from this, it increases our patience level, concentration power, creativity, visualization power.
Along with this there are few health benefits which make even more interesting in this art
Coordination between your hand and eye.
Happiness by releasing Dopamine in your Brain.
Brain Growth by increasing ability to grow your brain cells
As it needs you to remember steps and techniques, it works brain, keeps mind clear and active. This prevents from dementia as you grow older.
Stress Relief
Alter or Make your own cloth
Starts from altering your own clothes, by stitching a ripped seam, fastening buttons, or zips etc. and slowly You can start making your own clothes. it is very simple to start, it all requires some tricks and tips to start with. Then you will start enjoying by creating your own clothes and altering your old clothes by giving new life to it. Not just old cloth, even when you buy new one you can alter it to your required fit and change style feature by adding few more values with embroidery or basic hand stitched or some accessories. Once you get hand on yourself, you will automatically enjoy playing creatively with fabric and needle.
Make Gifts and wall art
Gift doesn’t mean should be made using metal, ceramic, or clay etc. but can also be made on piece of cloth/fabric by using thread and needle, which can be converted to wall art. Yes, it is very simple and easy to make gifts by using this art. You can make aprons and gift it to dearest one or your mother, you can decorate your own home by putting few stitched together on piece of cloth, which can hang on to wall, or make table cover set, Bed cover set and many other things which you can make easily and gift to dearest ones. Receiver will be thrilled to have gifts made by you. When you make gift for someone special, it will remain with them forever special. Rather than just a piece of gift.
Exercise to your brain
As sewing requires more of your creativity and thinking process in designing/making products. Your brain will be working constantly by reminding you steps and technique with focus and clear mind. The satisfaction that you feel during the process of sewing helps in reducing stress and anxiety in your day to day routine work by releases dopamine in your brain.
It helps to Increases patience level.
Generates Passive Income
It creates passive income in many ways. You don’t have to wait till u get hands on it, you can start in basic level itself by altering, doing embroideries on the ready garment with basic hand /machine stitches, can add ready available accessories to it and also u can make final products like garments/outfits, upholstery, home décor items etc.
Some of the Tools which you need to before you start
Measuring Tools
Marking Tools
Sewing Tools
Cutting Tools
Pressing Tools
Learn More About Essential Tools in Essential Tools for Sewing
Some of the basic Hand stitches to start with
Running stitch
Basting Stitch
Chain Stitch
Blanket/Button hole Stitch
Catch Stitch
Hemming
Blind Hemming
Learn in detail of these basic stitches in Basis Hand Stitches
Machine Stitch Seams
Plain Seam
French Seam
Pinked Seam
Flat Fell Seam
Super Imposed Seam
Piped seam
Bind Seam
Learn More about Seams and Seam Finishes
References:
Book- Practical Sewing and Dressmaking, by Sara May Allington
Book- Garment Construction by Edna M. Callahan
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