So, for the new year I decided to teach myself to sew in a new way using the free motion foot on my sewing machine! It is very different from my usual way of doing things, and only yesterday did I feel I made something well enough to actually show! I taught myself to embroider on a sewing machine over ten years ago just using the regular foot, with feed dogs up, giving me a lot of control over my stitches, but not a whole lot of capability to do expressive line work. Using this new technique takes away a lot of the control allowing me to go up, down, and side-to-side without constraints. It’s a little like biking without training wheels. The sewing stitches are more irregular, organic, and expressive. These little bugs (weevils… aren’t their long snouts cute?) are by no means perfect, I’m still getting the hang of controlling stitch length myself, and I still get thread breakage from tension issues, but I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere… which is a great feeling after making tons of kiddie scratch.
