Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Sewing & Pain

Now I know why my fingers and hands get so sore from sewing. It is because I am often sewing through gooey, rubbery tape. I used white plastic tape to reinforce collars, cuffs and places where my paper costumes will have stress and sewing through the tape is brutal! Today I had to stop because my forearm and my thumb just hurt too much to go on.

When I think of the implications of "repetitive motion" pain, I think of hundreds of years of international labour and the human cost. It hurts, but I could not be prouder. Writing never affected me this way. Sewing is a craft and has such a history. I am so, so proud to be a sewer.

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