Sewing Obsessed!

I do love hand quilting, really I do.  The look of hand quilting is just so warming when you think that someone stitched the quilt with love.  Although there was lots of love put into my first quilt, I do know that I was more then overjoyed when the last stitch was put in!  With this quilt I went from quilting 1 stitch (yes, I said 1; one; Uno!) to 4 stitches at a time by the end of the quilting.  Oh, I thought I was so good then, but there was no way I was ever going to hand quilt another quilt!  Never!  I know....famous last words.  And never say never.  About 5 years later I did hand quilt my second quilt. It was made with a combination of polyester & cotton, and of course is just didn't hold up.  And I still didn't know much about what fabrics to use.   No, I don't think I ever took a picture of that one.  Needless, to say it was a few years after that before the quilting bug took hold of me...

It's a beautiful Sunday morning and I'm just itching to get outside, but laundry and meals for dear hubby are on the agenda. Hope I can grab a bit of fresh air before meal time tonite. Thought I would share with you my very first quilt. One I made 24 years ago for my son. The block is called "Moon over the Mountain". I was over the moon when it was finally done!! I used polyester broadcloth ... heh I didn't know the difference back then! I was pretty well teaching myself. I also hand quilted it and I think it took me like 8 months just to do the quilting and really there wasn't all that much in it. I didn't know to use a thimble or all these great gadgets we have today, hence I ended up with some pretty "meaty" looking thumb and fingers. I had no idea that working with curves would be so dang hard for a beginner. Nobody told me I should be starting with something simple. Not to mention that I had to use templates and cut everything out wit...

Wow! So this is "blogger land"? Never thought I would do something like this, but low and behold here I am. What a great way for family and friends to "watch" what I am doing in the "Down Under Sweat Shop" ... my sewing room. At least for now that is what I will use this blog for. Sewing/quilting is my hobby. Hmmm, not strong enough. My passion. No, that's not right either. BINGO! That's it!! It's my addiction! An addiction I don't want to be cured of! Being at the sewing machine or just in my sewing room is like being in a whole other world where there is no hate, illness, diseases, fighting or wars to worry/think about. In there I solve all the worlds problems with a stitch here and a pattern cut out there; in my little world (my sewing room) life is perfect! If you don't have something you are that passionate about ... then you have no idea what I am talking about. But with this blog maybe I can show you how strong my addiction (pas...