Contemporary Sewing Patterns for the Modern Maker
I really hope you have enjoyed this past month following along with The Skill Collective as we focused on mindfulness, connectedness and mental health over on Instagram. As we wrap up the month I wanted to share with you 7 simple things that I do for my mental health. I’m not a psychologist or any expert by any means – these are just some practical ideas from a normal girl for how I look after my mental health. I’d love to hear your tips for how you manage your mental health in the comments!
I really hope you are enjoying our month focusing on mindfulness and connectedness over on Instagram! If you’d like to catch up on the posts you can always look at the hashtag #craftingamomentofmindfulness . One of the things that I really love about The Skill Collective are the huge number of free mental health resources available on their website. There are resources for so many things from dealing with perfectionism, to reducing stress – and even a super quick mental health check in to see how you are going. If you’re interested in checking them out head on over to the Skill Collective and sign up for their newsletter!
Another wonderful resource that I highly recommend is their online course for students which aims to help students prepare for and succeed at their exams. If you are studying or having kids who are studying check out Nimble Noodle here.
Personally my favourite thing is their Instagram account which serves up daily bite size mental health tips.
Looking forward to sharing my mental health resources and tips with you this month!
Every now and then tragedy strikes and one of our samples is damaged. We had a photoshoot a few years ago at a cafe, and after the shoot we noticed some odd bleached sections of on the back of our Dawn shorts sample. I almost cried. I love this sample and knew this fabric wasn’t available anymore. I washed them in the hopes it was just something white on the surface, but to no avail. Our currently running theory is that when our model was perched on the edge of tables that there might have been leftover cleaning liquid? Who knows. But finally I figured out a solution! I love my embroidered back pocket Dawn jeans, so I thought why not add some embroidery below the pocket to cover the stain! Today is the story of my Geraldton Wax embroidered Dawn shorts and covering stains with embroidery!
This has been a really rough year for everyone, and I think we can agree that globally people are struggling, not just with the physical health impacts of COVID-19 but also the impacts on our mental health. It’s been hard, and more than ever we are in desperate need of relaxation and a reduction in anxiety and stress.
With that in mind, I’m really excited to let you know that this month I’ll be joining with the amazing team of clinical psychologists behind The Skill Collective to share the benefits of crafting moments of mindfulness in your life. We’ll be dedicating the month of May to sharing resources, tips, and personal stories of how we can all craft moments of mindfulness and rest for ourselves in our daily lives and our sewing!
Today we’ll be kicking off the month with a post on The Skill Collective Blog diving into what mindfulness is, what the benefits are and how as makers we can take advantage of it. I’m excited!
Head on over to The Skill Collective Blog to read our post!
Make sure you head over to Instagram and follow @theskillcollective for daily tips and advice for healthy mental health. I have been following along for years and highly recommend!
I’d also love for you to join with us in crafting moments of mindfulness throughout this month – feel free to save the image above, and share it to your socials or blog – tagging @theskillcollective and #craftingamomentofmindfulness
We’d love to see how you’re crafting moments of mindfulness and actively creating restful moments for yourself!
We asked some wonderful makers in the sewing community to come on board to sew their own take on the Reef pattern, and we are so excited to share their makes with you! We love this part of a pattern release as it gives us a chance to share with you all how you could use the Reef and Reef Curve patterns!
We’ve been absolutely blown away (not surprisingly of course, because these makers rock!) by the makes we’ve seen! These Reef sets are seriously the cutest, lets take a look!