My New Project

I received a new sewing machine for my birthday from Rich, and I just got it out of the box on Monday. The last time I had sewed was in the 8th grade in Home Ec. class, so needless to say, I didn't even know how to thread the machine, much less create anything with it. Now one of the reasons it has taken me four months to get it out, was that I had every intention of taking a class that would teach me how to use it (of course that would require some planning on my part), but it never happened. Finally, I just decided that I could teach myself how to sew using the user's manual and some other books I had picked up.

The other thing is that I wanted to make a quilt...again, I have never made a quilt in my life (and never wanted to). So, I decided to teach myself two skills at once: quilting and sewing. As I am writing about this, it kind of seems like a recipe for disaster, but to be honest it is going quite well. I got the quilt pieced in under a day--I chose an easy pattern, and I was going to hand quilt it, but my mom convinced me to try machine quilting. So now I am almost done with the quilting part, and will just have to add the binding (which I am very excited about). I can't believe how much I like this new hobby, and am even thinking about my next project.

The hardest part about this is that I do most of the work while the kids are sleeping, which means I am going to bed much later than normal. This was Paige and me taking a quick snooze on the couch together yesterday before lunch.