NEVER TOO OLD....

The sewn part!The "layout"

When I was growing up I always wanted what I didn't have. I had a best friend who was a "Brownie Scout". This is like boy scouts for girls. She wore the little brownie outfit to school once a week, and I thought it was SO cool. I was always beggin' my folks to let me be a brownie too. They finally consented. I went to JC Penny's and bought my cool outfit. Well..... my infatuation didn't last very long. The outfit wasn't as cool as I thought it was. Anyway it just did not work out for me. My friend and I also liked to play Barbie dolls together. The thing was that her mom sewed all of her doll clothes. I had tons of store bought clothes, but I wanted homemade clothes like Linda's doll had... and like Linda had. They sewed EVERTHING! I had to wear "store bought" clothes...and very nice ones at that. Any way when I got to junior high we had to take a sewing class. It was SO fun! I LOVED buying the fabric and looking at patterns, and picturing how it would all look! I just DID not love putting it all together. Didn't like zippers and sleeves and waists and poor fit! So I gave it all up. I am not a person to spend money on projects that I know I won't do, so I didn't indulge the part of it that I liked. Well now all of that has changed. When Isaac was born, I created my first baby quilt. I bought the fabric and got Wanda Harker to see it all together for me so I could quilt it. Then a bunch more babies came along and didn't get quilts. I had always felt bad about it, but still didn't do anything. Then Lindsay put a bug in my ear about how her boss did quilts for her grandkids and it got me going. Way to go Lindsay! Well Jana Fowers pieced six quilts for me, and I quilted them. Everyone kept saying that they liked piecing, but not quilting. I didn't think for a minute that I could ever do it. Then I decided to get caught up with the latest batch of babies. Toryn, Johnny, Josh, and Baby Mathie. I got some fabric to Jana, and got 2 of the quilts done. Then I started thinking about piecing them myself. That was about a week ago. Since then I have bought a machine, gotten a pattern, and started my first effort. It is definitely NOT perfect, but it is a decent effort for my first try. I am still struggling to see if I can proceed with the "not perfect" part, but I am thinking I will let it stand. WHAT I LOVE is the buying of the fabric, cutting it into the CUTEST little squares, and then playing with it until you have the perfect arrangement. You just have to sew a straight seam....NO zippers or sleeves or waists. It is as much fun as doing my first cross stitch kit. I was hooked when I did that first little X in that funny fabric with all the holes!!