During the interim (patterns are heading briefly in a slightly different direction, have to sort that out), a bit on my sewing resume.  Important for putting my sewing comments into context, I think.

Mom taught me to sew when I was a wee child (somewhere around 2nd grade).  She said that if I hand-cross-stitched this very cute little apron (blue and white gingham, cross-stitching on each check to make flowers or something, and thin blue ribbons for the ties), she would get me a child-sized sewing machine (I believe it was a Singer, something like the Sew Smart Mini).

Sew, I stitched the apron (one of us may actually still have it around somewhere, seems I’ve seen in in the last decade or so) and got the sewing machine.

I loved that machine!  It was electric, but it had a wheel I could crank to lower the needle (just like mom!), and I could reach through the arm (barely) to lift the presser foot lever (just like mom!).  I may have actually even made something with it, tho I don’t remember for sure.

After that, I did a bit of sewing off & on through high school (mostly off), then after kids, halloween costumes (on!), then my own halloween costumes (off & on).  Made a little quilted pillow cover, even put a zipper on it, and I’m still proud of that thing, no puckers, got the directional print lined up perfectly, no pattern, and I even put a ruffled edge on it.  Very kewl!  Did the obligatory hemming of Ikea curtains.

Sew, at some point I decided to make quilts for the kids.  These were actually WOF wholecloth quilts, not pieced or anything.  I took a cute fabric, generally fleece or corduroy, stuck a little batting in the middle, put matching flannel on the back, turned over the top edges to the back for binding, did a little stitching (usually not enough, but the kids didn’t care) and called it done.  These were fun to make, & I made several of them over the years.

I now have that little Wild Ginger program for making pants — well, shorts.  Not quite ready to make pants.  Might make some capris if the shorts work out well, which they look to be, as soon as I get myself a tailor’s ruler (that curvy one that looks like something for calculus).

I also managed to get one of those Golden Mean pattern book sets.  Well, actually, two.  You know how it sometimes goes on Ebay…tho I guess that’s a different story.

And you can read about my t-shirt quilt for greater detail on my sewing process — apparently I didn’t follow the standard procedures for that.

In a nutshell, I’m not your resource for technical information, but if you want opinions, I have plenty of those, and for a great price!

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