Why did I sign up for this class?
What had I gotten myself into? I was floundering in a sea of fabric bolts, crisp pattern paper, and fellow students who were enthusiastically—and seemingly effortlessly—designing outfits. Why had I signed up for this class?
Sewing had long been an interest of mine, and when I’d enrolled in a fashion design class my freshman year of college, I’d expected it to be fun. But it was way more involved than I had anticipated. For our final project, we had to design an outfit, create a pattern for it, construct it, and model it for the class. I struggled with the fabric choice, the design, the fit, the construction. It was overwhelming—and definitely not fun.
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