Better.

I'm still on a sewing hiatus. I've sewn a few things, but nothing to sell. This makes my hiatus 6 months long (less a day for all the literalists).

When I think about making garb, I hear these little voices in my head going, "If you took more care to make it historically accurate, I'd be interested in buying more" "We don't allow any machine sewing to be visible on our garb" "You should provide documentation for all of your pieces."

Basically I just feel like no matter how hard I try, there will always be some condescending twat who is doing it better than me and has to be snarky about it. At the very least, I will see others doing it better than me, and then feel like I can't measure up. I can handle changing my sewing techniques to make it look more period. But doing documentation? Having to battle every person who comes along and says "I don't think that's period?" Having to justify every little thing I do to prove that it's good enough?

I just don't want to do that. Especially since I prefer earlier periods, and there's just not as much information available for it as the later, more popular periods. (More popular because it's easier to research? Probably!)

Can't people do their own research and then decide if what I'm selling matches what they want? Isn't it enough that I use period-appropriate fabric and medieval drafting techniques? It's not like I'm selling polyester panne velvet dresses made with Simplicity patterns, FGS. I draft my own effing patterns, and that's more than a lot of people do.

And THEN there's all the people asking me to do custom items for them. No. I won't do it. If they are right there, with me as I sew, so I can take whatever measurements I need and I can make a mockup and they can try things on as I go along, and they can choose the fabric themselves and give it to me and tell me what they want and how much they care if it's exactly what they envision or not, then fine, I will do it. But that's not happening over the internet. That's friends and family only.

So it's the same thing I said 6 months ago. I like the money (it really has been a lifesaver recently), but I'm just not enjoying it that much.

Getting enjoyment out of a job? That's just too much to ask for!

In order to pretend that I'm listing new things, I'm taking out things that have been up for a long time without selling, and altering them to make them newer and hopefully more appealing to shoppers. So I guess that counts as sewing to sell.

Fortunately I still very much love tablet weaving, and those sell really well.