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A How to Guide For Young Girls Who Dream of Becoming a Fashion Designer

Do you love to look at fashion magazines? Do you dream of designing and making your own clothes? Do you love to sketch new outfits? If this sounds like you, then you may be on your way to an exciting new adventure, and it's not hard at all to get started. Here are some suggestions to get you on the right path to your very own Project FASHION.

Learn to Sew! Yes, you must learn to sew. It is actually quite easy and anyone can learn to sew by hand or with a machine. Check out local fabric shops for lessons, or check on line for "how to" videos and free patterns and ideas. If you can thread a machine, and sew a straight line, you can create anything. Start with very easy patterns like ones that say, "Sew in two hours", or "Sew Fast, Sew Easy", or "It's Sew Easy." These types of sewing pattern are great for beginners, and this is where you will want to start so that you don't get frustrated with a more difficult pattern. Garments that have elastic in them at the waistband are the easiest and best way to learn. Once you have mastered that, move onto easy accessories like purses, headbands, and hats. Familiarize yourself with every kind of garment and accessory there is to sew. Then move onto the more advanced things like lined skirts, princess seams, lined jackets, and zip up pants with a cuffed hem.

Always be sketching! Keep a sketch pad by you at all times, near your bed, in your school locker, at the gym, in your purse, where ever you are. You never know when a great design will pop into your head!

Always know what's in style. Have plenty of fashion magazines on hand; check out the latest dresses, styles, and gowns in Hollywood, and watch fashion TV shows. If you're going to design and make fashion, then you need to know it.

One of the most important things is you must have an "eye" for fashion, design, color, and print. Anyone can learn to sew a skirt on a sewing machine. It takes an exceptional individual to make a skirt that will be in high fashion with its uniqueness from the color, fabric texture, different stitches, design, and embellishments they used to create the skirt.

Designing and making your own clothes does not have to end up as a career move. Fashion Design is an art, and you can learn it just for fun, as a hobby, sew for your family, design and make costumes for a local theatre company, or even open up your own little corner boutique.

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Contrary to popular belief...

HG and I did not get into a fight and decided to stop working together on I am Fashion and started our own blogs instead. (Even our mutual friends wondered about it!) We still email each other daily about the intricate details of our lives and random thoughts we have, and feel extremely empty when the other is away and has no access to the internet. When I freak out, she is the first person I call and she is still my maid of honor when I fantasize about my wedding. Our reasons for closing down I am Fashion still stands, though I do think that my later rationalization of it in this blog is a better articulation of how we feel.

As for us continuing to blog even more regularly than before, I attribute it to the "newness" of our blogs. Starting a new blog is like starting a relationship. At the beginning everything is new and exciting as you get to know the other person and watch your relationship grow and mature. Every up and every down is a significant moment. Then the honeymoon phase eventually wears off and you reach a happy medium, where your relationship becomes a part of your daily life. With any luck, you will live happily ever after in this state with a few surprises here and there to spice up the norm. If not, your relationship will wane and you grow apart, eventually deciding that you are both better off parting ways.

Clearly I'm in the honeymoon phase. We are starting to explore new things together, trying to figure out what works best for the both of us. Every new post is an adventure. Every comment and email is exciting. I want to spend every moment of everyday with it, checking on its progress i.e. stalking the traffic, the incoming and outgoing links etc. It's an exhilarating feeling that I'd almost forgotten about!

Analogy aside, it is heartwarming to read everyone's encouraging comments and to know that we were able to leave a small footprint on some people's lives. We appreciate your support and remember that we've not left the blogging world for good. Come visit us some time at our new blogs -(Find the links to our new blogs in the post below). We miss you guys!