Chaos and Order

Way back when I was dressmaking I once had a client who freaked out when she saw all her beautiful fabric cut into pieces and lying on my sewing room table. She took one look at her beautiful Chinese silk fabric that was once yardage which had been hidden away in her closet for 20 years and asked that I pack it up so she could take it home because she wasn’t happy with the mess I was making. At the time I had only cut out the pieces and had yet to put one stitch to it so I guess in her eyes all she saw was a sloppy bunch of irregular shaped pieces of fabric haphazardly strewn over my table. I’m still not sure how she thought clothing was made; that it does in fact have to be cut up before it can be sewn back together, but it was valuable lesson for me and I never let another customer see the “mess” that was their fabric cut into pieces, before I’d had a chance to sew it into shape first.

These days I don’t care if you see my mess; in fact I showed the world my chaotic mess the other day …

But from chaos comes order … and isn’t it pretty.

Spread a little harmless chaos today and watch what happens.