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 ...
Jane...giving sewing some love