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Then and Now...

It was so time... When I run, I think about this...about sewing, about quilting, about writing about sewing and quilting.  I look forward to my runs, in large part because I can obsess about sewing--what will I make, what I have made, about fabric, about patterns I want and about altering patterns I have.  My mind is otherwise occupied--I have 2 wild boys, ages 2 and 5, and an psychologically draining job. I started sewing seriously about 16 years ago.  Before that, I'd taken home economics in high school and one semester was sewing; I loved it then but had ambitious plans for college and travel, not a homebody then--sewing wasn't for me.  In 2001 I received my first sewing machine, a Kenmore.  In those days, I sewed at least 8 hours/day, I was making my own patterns and obsessively sewing...as any unemployed, 20 something year old in Portland, OR could--you know in the 90s and early 2000s, it was just the place for "retired" 20 somethings to move (its much ...