Catching the sewing bug!

You may or may not have known this but I used to do a lot of sewing.  I was a 'professional seamstress' for over 25 yrs plugging away mostly at bridesmaids dresses.  Throw in alterations and once in a while something fun and I finally got tired of it all.  I burned out.  Is that why people often retire from a job at 25 yrs?  Oh, don't get me wrong, I still liked fabric and patterns and love my machines.  I just didn't want to deal with the grind of doing the same thing over and over and over again.  So I semi-retired from the custom sewing.  Once in a while I take on a project but never again will I do bridesmaids dresses, unless it is for my own family.

Lately though, I have been feeling the urge to do more sewing.  I have a young girl (about 9 yrs old) who comes to my house for sewing lessons.  That has been fun.  I got some pretty great deals on some fabric last week and showed the flannel to the older grandsons.

 
Yup, they want some jammie pants made with that doggie print. 

They said "no" to the pink flowers and butterflies...LOL!  Thats ok, that fabric was for me anyway. 

When my daughters were little, I did a lot of sewing for them and loved it.  Once they got to about Jr. High, they didn't appreciate the clothing anymore.  Oh, well!  I still have most of the patterns from those days and was spending some time looking at them lately.  Cuteness still abounds in those patterns! 

For some weird reason the Universe has decided it to be fitting that I only have grandsons at this point...Sheesh!!!  There just are not as many cute things for boys to be made.  Ahh...well, I guess I will just have to be more creative in my thinking if I want to make things for the little guys. 

New Year, new stuff going on.

Happy New Year to all.  Hopefully your holidays were good ones!

I wanted to make a point of directing you to the January issue of the Owl Creek Gazette.  Yours truly has an article (actually the first of a series of articles) in this issue about food preservation.  Check it out!!

Meanwhile, just enjoying the nice days that don't feel like January at all.  I am sure that these days are limited and we will see some hard core winter yet.