Who taught you to sew?
My Mom. I so admired her being so clever. Could not wait to become so clever too.
What frustrated you the most about your sewing machine? The way it senses that I am stressed or in a hurry and then finds every trick in the book to make me humble.
What would make it easier to learn to sew? A very patient teacher who keeps you curious and interested.
What did you do to conquer the sewing machine? Spent hours upon hours till sewing was as natural as breathing.
What kept you going? Curiosity, the lust for learning and the idea of more skills to build on.
Where did you keep your sewing machine? Case or Cabinet? In an old desk of my dad's under a cover lovingly made by myself. These days on a folding steel table in my sewing room.
When did you conquer the sewing machine? Around the age of 8 I got an old secondhand manual Singer from my
parents. What fun the two of us had!
How did you ever learn to quilt? It was another skill to conquer and I wanted to make some quilted soft furnishings - first for my dolls and then for myself.
Did you use a straight stitch or zig zag sewing machine to learn to sew? Straight stitch. Zig-zag came later (around 10) when I was allowed to use Mom's electric machine.
Were you a child or an adult when you learned to quilt? In my own fashion as a child, but properly when I was 41.