I had my very first sewing class last night and it was pretty cool. We didn’t do too much actual sewing this week, but I still learned quite a bit. One of the ladies in the class has the same sewing machine as me and she already knew a little bit about sewing and her machine, so that was kind of helpful. We are working on sewing a shirt (my teacher calls it a blouse:) and we are actually using a pattern that you trace rather than just cut out. I like that because switching to one of the cheap cut out patterns will be easy, but if it was the other way around I probably would have a hard time learning how the tracing works all by myself.

The teacher for my class is an interesting lady, she is from Germany (so she has a pretty heavy accent despite living in the states for a long time) and she seems like one of those sweet, but yet spunky grandma types. Of course, she prefers the higher-end sewing machines, thread, fabric, scissors, patterns, etc., (and she can since she has sewn a long time), but when you are first learning I don’t really think putting a ton of money into something is always such a great idea. Although I must say that I have a very nice sewing machine and a pair of very fancy scissors (which I actually found very on sale, thanks to Ben’s help). Anyways, I think the more high end patterns will be fun to sew, but for now I think I am going to start with the cheap cut out tissue paper type of patterns and fabric that I won’t cry over ruining if the pattern doesn’t turn out.