"Create your own style, let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others" Anna Wintour.
My childhood was the best stage of my life, if I could I would travel back to that years to enjoy them more, one of the best memories I have of my childhood are beside a sewing machine, I know, it's incredible to hear that, I bet you all were expecting another thing, but well... this is reality, welcome!
Fashion has been something very important in my life and now that my school years are coming to the end I am considering the idea of going to Medellin and study fashion design, some other day I will talk to you about that, for now I will tell you about my childhood and sewing machines story.
My childhood was the best stage of my life, if I could I would travel back to that years to enjoy them more, one of the best memories I have of my childhood are beside a sewing machine, I know, it's incredible to hear that, I bet you all were expecting another thing, but well... this is reality, welcome!
Fashion has been something very important in my life and now that my school years are coming to the end I am considering the idea of going to Medellin and study fashion design, some other day I will talk to you about that, for now I will tell you about my childhood and sewing machines story.
When I was about 10 years old the mom of a friend decided to teach how to sew and my mom begged me to enter because she said it was going to be a very good experience so I started classes with my cousin and we had a lot of fun in each class. The classes consisted of 2 hours divided by a little recess so we could eat cookies with coke (the cookies were the best cookies in the world). The first classes I learned how to make little bags in which you can carry clothes to take to trips or even cosmetics. I still remember I made like a billion of this little bags which later became the Christmas gifts for some aunts and cousins and my bags for traveling of course. I think the best thing about starting sewing classes was that my grandma and my mother were very excited, both of them love to sew, most of all my grandma, and she was very proud that I was sewing and she could help me.
After making hundreds, thousands, millions, or even more (just kidding) of this little bags I start doing purses, I made one for my mother (the black and white one) and the rest for me. Making this purses was a huge step in my classes, they are much more complicated to do and require a lot of ability and concentration to be able to do them. At first I felt that doing one of those purses was going to be impossible, I wanted to go back and do more of those little bags, but even though things get harder you have to give everything of you and try your best. The purse I enjoyed the most doing was the black one made of remnants, I loved the way I could combine completely different cloths and they will still be going to look amazing when I putted them all together, it wasn't easy to make it because you have to sew every single little piece of cloth and I had to be patient, after all I think it was a good result and looks very good now that it's finished.
Now that I had done what, my teacher called "simple things" I decided to challenge myself with harder things that I never, not for a second, think they were possible. I decided to make clothes. My first blouse was one of squares (the one in the picture) that I decided to sew because the original one was very little for me, then I was going to the United States to a cruise because of my 15th birthday, in this trips you have to use the same color of shirt as the other girls, some colors for me were horrible and in the stores those colors looked horrible in the styles of the shirts. I decided to make my own shirts to take to my trip. I accept that it wasn't easy but all those classes where worth because the blouses were really good done. After I finished them I felt very proud of me, what for a second I believed it was impossible was now a reality, even though the original ones are much better I feel good about doing my own clothes.
I still can't believe that what started with my mother begging me to do is now one of the things I love the most in my life, I feel that sewing and designing are now a part of me and that I found my true passion in this. I feel very proud of me and I hope that one day I can design clothes and people will know me.
I still can't believe that what started with my mother begging me to do is now one of the things I love the most in my life, I feel that sewing and designing are now a part of me and that I found my true passion in this. I feel very proud of me and I hope that one day I can design clothes and people will know me.