Craftiness

I've been playing around with sewing since I borrowed Dave's mom's sewing machine a bit ago, and I really seem to be taking to it!
The key, it seems, is precision, not speed. Precision in cutting, precision in seam allowance, precision in pinning.
Of course, sometimes I prefer to just hold the material pieces together and sew that way. If I've cut the pieces properly, they'll line up perfectly.
And there's something about the hands-on approach I like.
Some Web site I read said that sewing has shown to reduce stress up to 40 percent, and I think I'm feeling the effects of that, too. There's something soothing philosophically about turning some flat panel of material into a three-dimensional object.