Original Piece: swim suit

Black Mesh Swimsuit

A diy sewing blog

When I was a small child I had a well loved teddy bear, who often needed mending. My grandmother patiently taught me the basic sewing skills to keep my small furry friend from coming apart. It seemed like an incredible skill to have. Later, I began putting patches on clothing, which gave it new life, and more importantly, made it somehow "more mine". When I was 10 or so, I lived with an aunt who was a very experienced seamstress, who also made costumes for a local musical theater. At around this time for some reason, Hawaiian shirts were in fashion, and I really wanted one badly. The problem was that they were expensive, and I meekly asked my aunt if she could make me one. She said "No, but you will" and she took me along with her to the fabric store and not only did I get to choose my own patterned fabric, I learned how to use a sewing machine to make my own shirt. It was of course a little shabby, but it was mine. Knowing these skills seemed like wizardry and I began making, mending, and altering my own clothes. Later, I came to see it as activism which acted as a sort of upstaging of deeply ingrained consumer capitalist supply chains.

This blog is essentially a place for me to post and share all of my sewing projects since 2013. I am admittedly bad at documenting the process, but here are a few of the things I have worked on whether it was costuming for theater, making apparel for myself and friends, and curtains for bars and restaurants (https://www.instagram.com/studioludisnyc)