PURPOSE RESULT FLOW

PURPOSE EFFECT FLOW

I remember signing up for a sewing course a few years ago. The course was very intimate, learning from the basics – taking measurements, designing the form, cutting, sewing. The first day I showed up at the course, led by the wonderful Irena from Belarus, there were two girls besides me. We introduced ourselves one by one, starting with me: Marta, then Kinga and then Natalia. The names of all the participants, and surprisingly, mine too. Yes, those are my three names 😉 I knew right away that I was in the right place.

And so, a jump to the present, because I haven’t sewn for a long time, and something in me was really demanding it. About 3 years ago I was going to sew a backpack and I stopped at that intention. Until now – this intention, this goal appeared in my head again. Yes, a backpack, I want to sew a backpack! This thought was also accompanied by a feeling, such warmth and joy. And so this backpack followed me. One day I took out the machines, materials, all the accessories and I was choosing from what I had. The backpack was somewhere in my head, a kind of backpack-bag. And so I planned it in my head. I wanted to sew a drawstring, but it didn’t work out. And then I knew I had to change something. When I started arranging the accessories, I felt that it had to be a bag. These accessories made it happen. These details, decorations, and specifically fringes. When I put them on the main form, I knew right away. And I started sewing. First the main part, the bag. Then I started thinking about the strap, what it should be like, how to attach it, how to sew it. And at the same time what kind of closure for the bag and whether to do it at all. I had a piece of material and after putting it on I saw that it could be a flap. But the flap itself was kind of boring 😉 so I added the fringes! And that was it! And I also had to have a button. It suited me somehow 🙂

The belt with buckles was ordered (however I gave up on sewing it when I saw this perfectly matching chocolate brown in the haberdashery) and was waiting for the final touches or rather seams to attach it 😉

When sewing this bag I never used a ruler, I didn’t make a design beforehand, I didn’t have a written plan, I didn’t have measurements. I had an image in me that was taking shape, emerging and getting more specific when I was creating the bag. Yes, the bag wasn’t created in one day, it was a process – 3 short evenings. I followed what I wanted to create. I had a goal in me, not knowing the exact effect, I followed the flow or maybe rather in the flow and every time it gave me incredible joy 🙂
I am delighted with my new bag!

No, it’s not straight as a ruler (because I haven’t used one ;)), it has some minor flaws, because I haven’t sewn in a long time and I haven’t mastered this art as much as I would like. It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely mine.

Sometimes certain projects take a long time to germinate in us until the moment comes when they want to come true. There’s a readiness in us.

What puts you in flow?
Or maybe you don’t know and want to discover it?
What makes time irrelevant when you do THIS?