Originally Posted by lynsue
As I get older, I find I want to go back & recall better more peaceful times. I started back into sewing with quilting. I'm now going back to trying to make blouses since I can't find anything I like in stores. I'm also trying to use some of my husbands' great grandmother's clothing to make small pieced quilts to remember her.
It's so interesting to hear how each of us have come to this point at this time.
Part of it is that we have more time on our hands. I always sewed a lot, so much so that I wore out 3 motors and 2 foot pedals on my first sewing machine. When the babies napped, I sewed. The repair man asked me if I was sewing every day and he recommended we put a heavy duty motor on so I wouldn't keep wearing it out. The next time it happened, I bought a good Viking and it was still going strong after 16 years when I passed it on to my daughter and bought a Pfaff as I needed a lighter weight machine. When the kids were active in school, it was harder to get time to sew but I still did as much as time and energy allowed and yes, I too knitted, crocheted, did embroidery and other crafts plus read and worked full time.