I’m your Great-Aunt Kitty, the eccentric family black sheep that tells you things your ma and pa wouldn’t. Some of you know me as the designer and maker at Felix & Kitty Creative, and my intention is to teach you how you can make everything you see there, and more – with your own twist.
I’ll share with you all the tricks I picked up through my checkered life, starting with the skills you need to clothe yourself with complete freedom, no matter your shape, size, gender/s, or dis/abilities.
Later on, who knows? We certainly don’t need to stop there. You can learn to do and make so many things that mass-producing corporations have convinced you that you can’t. The first step is the hardest! Start by making a shirt or two, then next thing you know, you’ll be unstoppable.
For what it’s worth, someone at some point has actually paid real money to your old Aunt Kitty to do all of the following (in addition to making corsets and clothes at Felix & Kitty, I mean):
- Make costumes for theatre
- Fit patterns on people in a couture house
- Design and make shoes
- Create and cook my own recipes. In a restaurant, with tablecloth.
- Make bread in a French bakery
- Make dog treats
- Proofread textbooks
- Teach English
- Hand-weave belts
- Ghost-write love letters
- Pen magazine articles, poetry, and short stories
- Paint. On canvas and paper, not houses.
- Hang on, yes, also paint houses, if you count finishing walls with faux effects.
- Sing (reasonably well), play instruments (badly), and dance (atrociously)
Never have I ever had any formal schooling in any of these things, unless you count half a semester of sewing class I flunked as a 10-year-old.
My point isn’t that I have a short attention span, but that you too can learn to do pretty much anything if you believe you can. You just have to start somewhere, sometime. Maybe that’s here, and today!
