“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”~Martin Luther King Jr. So sorry faithful readers, I have been busy! For weeks and weeks now I haven’t had any new posts. I’ve been sewing, but not on anything that would be big enough to post about. Then I started…
Category: A Sewing Story
Wagon Wheel
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. ~Harriet Tubman Last week I encouraged my readers to think about the struggles and successes of your…
Monkey Wrench
“I would unite with anybody to do right and nobody to do wrong.” ~Fredrick Douglass Last week I encouraged my readers to go out and do some random acts of kindness. While they didn’t post, they did share some with me, so I’ll share them with you! Someone let a lady with less groceries go…
Jacob’s Ladder
“Knowledge has always been the most effective tool no matter what the situation.”~Jacqueline L. Tobin author of Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story Of Quilts And The Underground Railroad When I first started sewing it was because I wanted to make quilts. I had no real desire to make clothes, just beautiful and cozy…
Made To Fit Curtains
”Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”~Leonardo da Vinci In case you hadn’t guessed it, I always have something going on in my sewing room. Hardly a day goes by that I don’t do at least one thing in my sewing room. I’ll take a step forward on a pattern, or sometimes several steps if I have…
Grandpa’s Bridges
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”~Theodore Roosevelt Some projects just take longer than others! It’s a lesson I already knew, but was getting another example of it in my current project. To make matters more complicated, right in the middle of the time consuming project, I got a phone call….
The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”~Eleanor Roosevelt My cousin Melanie sent me a cute idea on Facebook recently. Someone had bought this book, then made their own little ghost quilt to match it. Since I work at an elementary school, and with kindergartners, I thought I might as well make my own little…
Winnie The Pooh, And Elizabeth Too!
“Keep looking up…..that’s the secret of life.”~Winnie The Pooh As my faithful readers know, a sewing blog is lots of work! This year I’ve decided that if I have a project completed, I’ll post about it. If I don’t and things are still a work in progress, then I’ll skip a week. This week, for…
Two Year Anniversary! Plus A New Addition!
Two years of sewing and blog writing have passed! Two years of learning and challenging myself, and of feeling confident and insecure all at once. So much has happened, especially in this last year. Michael had some medical issues, which have now thankfully resolved, and during that time sewing and this blog changed for me….
It’s Fun To Sew For The ASYMCA!
Something I have done for many years now, is volunteer my time and sewing skills to the Camp Pendleton ASYMCA, The Armed Services YMCA. They have a program called Operation Kid Comfort. What this service does is provides quilts to military children of deployed, active duty, service men and women. Volunteers make small quilts which…