Although I always fantasized about being a successful dressmaker, my profession took me along totally different paths, but that passion always remained latent. Now that I have a little more time I have returned to it and it is getting better and better. Since I love sewing and designing my own clothes, I spend a good part of my leisure time in this wonderful world, which has also become my most effective therapy.

Some people go for a run, others watch a football match, play cards or go to a party. But until very recently I had not found that hobby that would relax me and evade reality for a while. I tried yoga, meditation and cooking. But then I remembered what I liked when I was younger, fiddling with the needle and thread and I started to make a sweater for my daughter. And she turned out so well that a couple of her friends asked her if she could make one just like it, but with other colors. This is how I looked for a manufacturer of velvet thread to make more sweaters of this type, since the first one was pure improvisation to see what would come out.

The truth is that it always feels great to be told how well you do something you feel passionate about. And this was the trigger for me to start taking my hobby more seriously. Of course, I don’t intend to make a living from it at this point, since I have enough with my work, but I am dedicating the time that I used to dedicate to television or yoga or all those hobbies that never filled me up like other of my friends.

Because I enjoy every step I take when I start designing a garment. From the moment I draw it on my pad and start thinking about what fabrics I can use to make it, like when I went to a velvet thread manufacturer to make those sweaters. You don’t know how nice it was to see my daughter one day with her friends and all of them wearing a sweater made by me! I guess it’s a feeling similar to what a dressmaker must feel when she succeeds with a collection.