Present yourself a little bit (name, age, children, name of the blog, age, city where you live, what you are doing when you are not sewing, \u2026)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n My name is Andreia, I\u2019m 34 and I live in Lisbon, Portugal. I have two children, a 6 year old girl and a 4 year old boy. I\u2019m a Maths teacher, so I\u2019m usually preparing classes, doing research or materials for my students, which doesn\u2019t leave me with a lot of free time for sewing.<\/span><\/p>\n When did you start to sew and why? How did you learn to sew<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n I started sewing for my kids about 4 years ago, basically because the kind of clothes I was finding in shops for them looked like something I could do or learn how to do, so that\u2019s how I started: a lot of trial and error, some wasted fabric, miles of unpicking and good pdf patterns with great tutorials explaining all the right techniques. A game changer for me was also my serger, it gave me the confidence to try and sew clothes for myself: my first piece was a sweatshirt.<\/span><\/p>\n What are your favourite clothes? Do you have a fable for something<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n My favorite clothes are definitely coats and jumpsuits, I\u2019m a very practical person so the idea of being ready with a single piece of clothing that still makes you look sharp and neat is my idea of perfection. For my kids I love to sew with knits because in less than 30 minutes I can have a t-shirt ready.<\/span><\/p>\n What is the sewing project you like the most?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Initially I was drawn to quick and easy projects, but with time I came to enjoy the precision of more labored clothes and the sewing in-between time: opening or pressing seams, marking, basting. Even though it\u2019s more time demanding, it\u2019s much more rewarding to see, for e.g., a coat come to life.<\/span><\/p>\n Do you only sew for you or also for other people (husband, children, \u2026)?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n I continue to sew for my kids, depending on their wardrobe needs. Usually I sew a larger size for them so it\u2019ll fit for longer. I also sew occasionally for my husband, I made him a pair of jeans which was one of the projects I\u2019m most proud of. There\u2019s a lot of love involving when you\u2019re sewing for your closest family, all the little details count.<\/span><\/p>\n From where do you get your ideas? Do you buy patterns or do you invent your own ones?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Pinterest is one of the undeniable sources of inspiration out there, but I do look around all the mainstream shops as well for ideas. I have a lot of patterns I either bought or tested and these make great bases for alterations and tweaks in design. I really don\u2019t advice anyone to invent patterns, there\u2019s a lot of work involved in getting the fit and all the details right, so I\u2019d rather rely and trust on who knows exactly what they\u2019re doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ol\u00e1 to all! Slowly we get back into rhythm because it is still June and today we proudly present our June-Sewing-Around-The-World contribution. We are very happy that we could win Lisbon based Andreia from In a Manner of Sewing . Schnittchen was already known to Andreia when we asked her last year to take part at our Sewing Around The World Tour. She had already sewn two patterns of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,143],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28943,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28927\/revisions\/28943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schnittchen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}