I had a niece come up for a sewing lesson yesterday- she had fun, did great and used up 2 1/2 more yards of my stash for me.
she made a 16” pillow and a 20- minute pillow case after spending some time practicing/ getting comfortable with using a sewing machine. She started on my Viking- but it decided it truly needs a hospital visit ( I’ve used it so much and neglected it ) so I had to get out my little 1956 Singer for her. She still did great — learned the basics on a very basic machine.
Now she wants to make a quilt. YEA!
Since my machine will be going into the shop Monday & will be gone at least 2 weeks ( they are backlogged) I decided I really need to start working on a mess I’ve had for way too long....
my closest aunt passed away over a year ago,I wound up with garbage bags of clothes I’m supposed to make quilts out of- I hadn’t dealt with any of the clothes, then lost my mom this past Christmas, so more bags added to the pile.
I decided last night it is time to start deconstruction and organizing- I can’t take the mountain of stuff that buried the whole end of my room anymore. I got through one whole bag plus an arm load last night. Of course this is going to ( replenish) my stash again....it’s never ending. But, I feel as if I’m ( finally) moving forward again.