Originally Posted by
miriam
Who taught you to sew?
What frustrated you the most about your sewing machine?
What would make it easier to learn to sew?
What did you do to conquer the sewing machine?
What kept you going?
Where did you keep your sewing machine? Case or Cabinet?
When did you conquer the sewing machine?
How did you ever learn to quilt?
Did you use a straight stitch or zig zag sewing machine to learn to sew?
Were you a child or an adult when you learned to quilt?
My mother taught me to use the machine, I taught me to sew.
You couldn't sew a quarter inch seam with that old machine, even with the quarter inch foot.
A different mother?
I gave it back to my mother and bought a good machine.
I am a creative person and have always had a creative outlet.
The first machine was in a cabinet. My new machine is a portable and sits on a desk.
I never actually had to conquer a machine since I learned to work with a machine, not against it. When the machine wouldn't do what I wanted it to do I got rid of it and bought one that would do what I wanted. No point in fighting with it when there was a proper tool for what I wanted.
I saw a quilt pattern in a magazine and that's all I need to learn quilt.
That first machine was a zigzag machine.
I started my first quilt when I was 21 so I guess that counts as adult.