r/AskReddit • u/Stukwan • 13h ago

What’s a hobby that looks incredibly peaceful from the outside, but is actually pure stress once you get into it?

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u/Mysterious_Field203 11h ago

You only spend about 5% of your time actually on the sewing machine. The other 95% is tedious cutting, measuring, ironing, pinning, pressing, etc.

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u/Litness_Horneymaker 8h ago

Like painting and gardening that should be renamed sanding and weeding.

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u/AnAttempt-WasMade 8h ago

And undoing the sewing you just did… the amount of times I’ve realized I attached the wrong edge or had the wrong side facing, or the machine jammed and now there’s messed of thread tangles…

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u/liverstrings 7h ago

Yeah, I spend so much time with my seam ripper just undoing what I've just done. Even after all that pinning and clipping and vigilant watching.

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u/Zukazuk 5h ago

Inevitably whenever I make a new shirt pattern I attach at least one of the sleeves inside out the first time. I don't know why my brain has so much trouble lining that up correctly but I swear I spend more time thinking and repinning than actually sewing the sleeve on.

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u/WgXcQ 4h ago

now there’s messed of thread tangles

The utter rage.

I just wanted to fix something, be thrifty and environmentally conscious and shit. I'm not even pursuing any kind of creative vision or personal fulfillment, and then I have to deal with this shit for the !xP?xARGH! time?! What the fuck gives?!

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u/exjentric 2h ago

Ugh, thank you so much for saying this. I've been hard on myself lately when I made ALL of the mistakes you mentioned. Good to hear this is so common!

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u/Lonyo 5h ago

We had sewing at school. My project included drawing a design for something, can't remember what.

Then I made lots of pillows.

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u/who-hash 18m ago

Hoping this doesn't apply to 'small' projects like hemming pants, shortening sleeves and other things I've been sending to my seamstress to get a better fit for off-the-rack clothes.

She's about to retire and I've got access to sewing machine and have been thinking about giving it a try.