I wish I could give you some sweet anecdotal story of how I found sewing. It’s because I was anxious and have adhd. That’s it.
If you have anxiety you know how easy it is to doom scroll on your phone. If you have ADHD you know how easy it to hyper fixate on a new hobby. Put ’em together and you have how I found sewing.
I was doom scrolling tik tok and saw the cottage core and homestead girlies making quilts and decorations for their houses and decided this would be my new personality trait.
I asked my husband’s grandmother for advice since she’s an avid fiber arts crafter. She pulled out an old, cheap beginner sewing machine she’d bought as a back up and rarely used, and told me I could have it if I wanted. I brought it home and tried to use it the very first day which ended in tears. I thought surely I couldn’t be the problem, it was probably just the machine so I dragged my husband in to the car and off to Joanne’s craft store we went. I came home with a new sewing machine and more fabric and tools than I knew what to do with. By the end of the night I had figured out how to sew a slightly curved straight line. By the end of the weekend, a shitty bookmark. By the end of the week, a decent-ish bookmark. Then I put it away and it sat untouched for almost a year.
Fast forward to October 2024 and my therapist is lecturing me that I need to find a hobby. I recently started anxiety/adhd meds and didn’t know what to do with all of my free time now that I wasn’t spending 5 hours a day panicking and rage cleaning. Supposedly a hobby would keep my hands and mind busy which would prevent me from having my daily existential crisis about not knowing who I am now without my anxiety. Ok, Kevin, whatever you say. (Spoiler alert: he’s right, I’m annoyed about it.)
November 2024 I got the brilliant idea to sew everyone’s Christmas presents this year, even though I had barely sewed two scraps together the year prior. But, as with anything, there’s no stopping a girl on anxiety/adhd meds with a half baked plan and a stubborn attitude. So, here we are.
The GingerSnap Homestead 