Reason to Sing

I've had a love affair with sewing since home econs back in 2001 (I am ancient). Since I didn't have a sewing machine at home, I would sneak into the sewing room by removing those layered window panes and climbing in during recess and after school to work on sewing projects.

Then when I was 17, my mum finally bought me a sewing machine! I had oodles of fun with it and went crazy with it! Kept buying cloth and zips from Chinatown and experimenting with inner linings (which are the prettiest details ever). I should have taken more pictures of those things I sewed, mostly tote bags, pouches, pencil cases, even PVC bi-fold wallets!

I even sewed my own school bag.

This is the best picture I could find, it was a desigual-esque patchwork cos I was super into bohemian/flower prints/crazy prints/batik then

These are some stuff I sewed for a carnival.

If you can see what's in the picture,  those on the bottom right were pacman PVC pencil cases which I was very proud of. I was super into clear stuff then but wanted to change things up a little bit. I binded my own notebooks too! Fun days.

Then my sewing machine went bonkers :( First the bulb blew, then bobbin winder stopped working and I had to wind it manually.

I was not happy with this machine.

And then one day, I happily chanced upon a lady demonstrating a Singer sewing machine. She stepped on the pedal, and without using her hands, the cloth was sewing parallel to the seams! I was shocked, I've never thought it was so easy to sew, because my machine can never sew straight without my hands guiding it.

From then on, I vowed that Singer shall be my next baby.

Soon enough, the bobbin threads started to run everywhere and then one day the machine just got stuck and couldn't be repaired. I was sad and grieved its demise, but excited that I could get a new one!

Was procrastinating on this for the longest time when Val messaged me last week with a photo of her new sewing machine.

And with renewed motivation, I went out to get one over the weekend!

This baby shall sing together with me :)