The Falling Star

So it's the June holidays, I should be studying for Common Tests 2 coming up immediately after the holidays. But to give myself a break, decided to commence upon the biggest sewing project ever in my life (the next biggest one was probably the apron we did in Secondary 1 Home Economics class 5 years ago :O which the teacher walked us through so it's not that big after all) Got inspired to really try a sewing project after watching the Great British Sewing Bee (a lovely and very refreshing reality show) on Youtube though the thought of sewing my own things have always been on the back of my mind since I was a child.  Okay honestly, I wanted to make a drawstring backpack only so that I could use it for camps when we all troop off to shower and I always dump all my clean clothes in a supermarket plasticbag that is of course functional but also looks very auntie . That aside, I probably spent about a week googling "sew drawstring backpack" and not finding a tutorial...

Not sure what to use this place for anymore actually. Junior College swept me up in a whirlwind, I thought it was you know a transient place, a temporary phase, but I realise that was one of the biggest assumptions I made. After JC there is university which promises to be more densely packed with excitement and stress and after that, the working world. I thought I was going on a hiatus but I think this is going to be a permanent hiatus. So I've decided to just use this blog as a place to record my crafty adventures instead, sewing, crocheting, jewellery, anything. Recently I've been exploring all these areas of handmade goodness, it's been in me all along, I just never actively pursued it. And really it's so so so convenient and amazing how the internet allows you to learn all these things when you don't have a grandma to teach you or find lessons rather expensive and inconvenient. Though I still think it would be much cooler if I had a grandma to teach me a...