I had sewn some making clothes in my 20's, but not really into it. My mother always sewed everything, and quilted beautifully. None of us 3 sisters wanted to quilt at that time. I did make one ugly quilt back then. Mom taught me hand embroidery, but back then I did only the scarves with ink stamped x's to do. I loved it though. Mom taught me to crochet some. I enjoyed that too.
Later in life I went back to school and worked as a Special Education Teacher until retiring early due to my health. I loved every moment of that, but also learned a lot about thinking outside the box.
Well, after I had to retire mom knew like I did I still needed something to keep my mind busy even if I couldn't do a lot physically. So I began to sew again on a quilt. I enjoyed it, and had a different outlook this time on all the things I could remember mom saying about "just loving to go into a fabric store and feel the fabric." In my 20's I thought What? lol.... Now I totally understand.
Right before my mother passed away I started back sewing and made a bow tuck bag. She looked at it, and said "yep you got it now."
She I guess knew she was getting sicker, because after that she started giving me a lot of her fabric to try things with. I was happy to know she got to see my love for sewing/quilting like her before she left us.
Now, here is my list: Sewing/quilting, hand embroidery, flower gardening, growing herbs (I have some mint growing in my kitchen now), crocheting, I learned this past year to paper piece, and I love it. I want to learn to make more clothes of some items and they look nice. lol... I also want to try out this coming year making some lotion bars. I always need lotion and creams around with lupus, sjogren's, and diabetes so I want some to use, and some to use for gifts.