Back to My Passion

Designing and sewing garments has always been a hobby that I have enjoyed in my high school years. I had even taken up Textiles and Design from years 9 to 12 in High School and had seriously planned a future career in this industry. However, as a result of suffering the gruelling Major Textiles Project, competitiveness, high amounts of stress, and lack of job opportunities in this industry, I gave up my dreams of becoming a fashion designer.

I studied Accounting in University because it was a "safe occupation", which I do not regret because I wanted to become an Accountant as well when I was in year 6 (I remember writing in my yearbook that I wanted to become an Accountant or Fashion Designer). I'm pretty surprised that I'm still sticking with my desired careers for over 10 years. I should get a gold star for my persistence :)

Over the past 5 years, I had forgotten my passion for designing and sewing garments, which is pretty sad because when I sewed, I was in another world. I could spend countless of hours sewing, unpicking my mistakes, hemming and cutting.

After watching bubzbeauty's video, it inspired me to return to my favourite hobby. Thanks bubz!!

Here are some snaps of me altering the hem length of my clothes. Btw, that Pfaff sewing machine you see there, is probably as old as me.

My pin cushion which I made from leftover material and an elastic band

So here's my first challenge of 2012: to recreate Taeyeon from SNSD's dress worn in an Athena Concert in Osaka from scratch. Just a word of note, I have never created any garment from scratch.

I will update you with my progress from time to time. This will probably take months as I work full-time during the week. So here goes, I need all the luck possible because I don't know how long this will take.