By trade I am a computer IT support person. I am one of those folks that just does whatever needs to be done and if I don't know it, I Google it and figure it out. Before being laid off back at the end of June 2011 I was a Helpdesk manager but I really enjoyed doing the work, better yet: making it work! You know, like Tim Gunn (Project Runway) always tells the designers? That's kind of hard to demonstrate on a résumé, by the way. Even in that job I loved coming up with the answer, especially when others couldn't. Sometimes the answer was a work around due to time constraints. But whatever i was doing, I just wasn't going to let those computers beat me and I will make it work!
Now that I am back into sewing and able to create all day, I find myself doing exactly that. I read the instructions (a little bit) because let's face it, sometimes reading ahead actually does make things easier. But by the time I am finish with a garment I have changed it in some way to make it work for me. I find that creative people see the world a little different than most, in parts. What I mean is when I look at a completed garment, I start to look for the seams and mentally take it apart. I do that with computers and once I started working on bigger projects in my house, I see those things the same way. It doesn't have to be things that I have created, just things that I am familiar with and have seen the parts, even a little bit. I have found that the more I do it the more it happens and the easier it is to see in my mind. This also allows me to see things in parts that I may not have worked on before. I have also found that being able to do that allows me to make things work even when they appear to have gone awry. I can visualize the parts and manipulate them in my head so then I can make what may have been a mistake work out. And then I found that more times than not, I like the new garment that was unexpected.
The point I am trying to make is this; no one but you knows what your intentions were when you started, they don't know that the instructions said go right and you went left so if there is a mistake, put down the project and think about what comes next and how to make it work for you.
Thanks for reading!
