I love blazing a trail. I do NOT love drudgery when it comes to making.
When I used to sew clothes as a teenager, I can remember feeling annoyed at doing the second side of a pair of pants or a shirt.
Creating something once is a problem solving challenge, doing it a second time, is just work.
With this in mind I dreading the 13 pairs of shoes (26!) I was going to have to sew to finish my Secret Keeper dolls off. I had them cut and ready to go, but couldn’t seem to make myself sit down, and actually do them.
I started doing searches online for “bulk doll shoes” hoping perhaps I could just buy them instead of make them… but I wanted the dolls to be 100% handmade, so I was frozen in a pattern of procrastination.
Then Christmas came, and we gifted our family with the 3D printer.
Knowing design software in general gave me a leg up on the learning curve of 3D design, but there was still A LOT to learn to create things from scratch.
After approximately 7 attempts at this boot I finally made something that looked like a boot!
The beauty of 3D printing is now that’s it’s been created, I can just set the printer to work and walk away and go start a new challenge— my favorite part.
