Why I cut fabric the way I do

There are several things that I do in my life that I can easily trace back to the time I spent in Brasil. I know I did not do them or think them before I went, so I know that is where I picked it up. Things I have done my whole life are a bitter harder to pin point, but I wanted to try.

I learned how to sew the old fashioned way – the original way – in the original art schools. I learned how at home from my mom. I have never gone elsewhere to learn how to sew. My mom taught me the basics and I have modified them and figured out a few things on my own. I still call her from time to time with questions though. So this would explain why, when I am cutting out fabric, I do it on the ground. That’s where my mom always cut out fabric. She would spread it out on the floor in the living room or the family room, put the pattern pieces on top and then cut out the pattern.

Now when I’m cutting out fabric, it gets spread out across my living room floor and I put the pattern pieces on it, I use pins to hold them down instead of shoes though, and I cut it out. It would appear that this is not the way most people do it though. Most people either stand or sit at a table when they are cutting out fabric. But that’s not how I learned. I even have access to huge cutting tables on Saturday night that I could use to cut things out on; but it would seem too weird to do it there.
That’s where that bit of me came from.