{"id":13982,"date":"2015-09-07T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T14:21:48","slug":"minimalist-sewing-for-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13982","title":{"rendered":"Minimalist Sewing for K"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After receiving even more new-to-K clothes from our neighbor last week, we went through K’s entire closet and all of her dresser drawers to take stock of her clothing situation. It is, in a word, crazytown.<\/p>\n

I know there’s a whole lot of capsule wardrobe talk going around the interwebs, and I so admire the concept, but as we sorted through hundreds<\/em> of items that I’ve made for K, it was time to admit that we’ve crossed over into the opposite of capsule: hoarder territory.<\/p>\n

“We have to get rid of this, I made this three years ago!” I beseeched, holding up a wrinkled floral\u00a0dress. K\u00a0shook her head resolutely. And the thing is, most of the clothes I made when I first started sewing regularly for her still fit. I switched tactics and taught her the Marie Kondo<\/a> method and asked her to only keep the garment if\u00a0it\u00a0sparked joy.\u00a0She said “thank you and good-bye” to 15 things. On the one hand, this is ego-boosting on my part, but on the other hand, it doesn’t solve our problem. An excessively sentimental mother-daughter duo\u00a0trying to eliminate\u00a0handmade clothes is a recipe for disaster.<\/p>\n

I keep revisiting my internal conflict of wanting to continue practicing my sewing vs. the guilt I grapple with as I generate more clothing than my daughter could possibly need.\u00a0I love love love<\/em> sewing for her.\u00a0As we sat amid a literal mountain of clothes, we figured out that she could wear something different every day for a year. Every. Single. Day. This is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Yes, the obvious answer is to stop sewing for her. But I’m not quite ready for that so instead I’m going to adopt a minimal sewing plan for this autumn\/winter. I’ll focus on clothes that she\u00a0will actually wear regularly like knit tunics\/dresses and skinny jeans and jeggings (or plain leggings). And for some reason, she loves zip-up vests and cardigans. I’m going to have to deploy some sneaky methods to reduce her gargantuan wardrobe. I know I’ll fall off the wagon and whip up some impractical, sure-to-be-ignored linen outfit here and there, but\u00a0right now, I feel like I can get all minimalist and capsule-y with my sewing. I’ve got this.<\/p>\n

P.S. A knit tunic coming up on Wednesday – I tried something new!<\/p>\n

P.P.S. Happy Labor Day to all those in the US!! I forgot all about it since all the days have been blending into each other. The tail end of summer is always that way for me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After receiving even more new-to-K clothes from our neighbor last week, we went through K’s entire closet and all of her dresser drawers to take stock of her clothing situation. It is, in a word, crazytown. I know there’s a whole lot of capsule wardrobe talk going around the interwebs, and I so admire the concept, but as we sorted through hundreds of items that I’ve made for K, it was time to admit that we’ve crossed over into the opposite of capsule: hoarder territory. “We have to get rid of this, I made this three years ago!” I beseeched, holding up a wrinkled floral\u00a0dress. K\u00a0shook her head resolutely. And the thing is, most of the clothes I made when I first started sewing regularly for her still fit. I switched tactics and taught her the Marie Kondo method and asked her to only keep the garment if\u00a0it\u00a0sparked joy.\u00a0She said “thank you and good-bye” to 15 things. On the one hand, this is ego-boosting on my part, but on the other hand, it doesn’t solve our problem. An excessively sentimental mother-daughter duo\u00a0trying to eliminate\u00a0handmade clothes is a recipe for disaster. I keep revisiting my internal conflict of wanting to continue practicing my sewing vs. the guilt I grapple with as I generate more clothing than my daughter could possibly need.\u00a0I love love love sewing for her.\u00a0As we sat amid a literal mountain of clothes, we figured out that she could wear something different every day for a year. Every. Single. Day. This is ridiculous. Yes, the obvious answer is to stop sewing for her. But I’m not quite ready for that so instead I’m going to adopt a minimal sewing plan for this autumn\/winter. I’ll focus on clothes that she\u00a0will actually wear regularly like knit tunics\/dresses and skinny jeans and jeggings (or plain leggings). And for some reason, she loves zip-up vests and cardigans. I’m going to have to deploy some sneaky methods to reduce her gargantuan wardrobe. I know I’ll fall off the wagon and whip up some impractical, sure-to-be-ignored linen outfit here and there, but\u00a0right now, I feel like I can get all minimalist and capsule-y with my sewing. I’ve got this. P.S. A knit tunic coming up on Wednesday – I tried something new! P.P.S. Happy Labor Day to all those in the US!! I forgot all about it since all the days have been blending into each other. The tail end of summer is always that way for me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-sewing-resources","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14011,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/14011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}