A cool new tool in my sewing basket!

I have been sewing since I was old enough to sit at my mom's sewing machine. She made my sister and I clothes and matching clothes for our dolls and barbies. I was born in the 50's so I had a Good Housekeeping kind of mom. I would sit under her old Singer machine table as a small child and catch the scraps falling to the floor. I could play for hours listening to the gears humming on her machine. Since then my love for sewing and cool sewing tools has been a fascinating adventure!

I have made clothes, dolls, quilts, cushions, pillows, most anything that can handle a needle and thread of some sort. If I can't fix it with needle and thread or tape then I am in trouble. I am a member of a Quilting Guild and recently learned about Blogging on the Internet. Now, that is my next big adventure...I am a mommy PC geek. My sister and her husband introduced me to the world of computers and since then I have discovered that you can combine the PC world and sewing...how cool is that! So, I am an Embird and EQ6 student... I think for the rest of my life! There is so much to learn just in those two programs. Embird is for the world of machine embroidery and EQ6 is for the quilting world in my PC.

There is so much excitement in the world of sewing that I decided to add my two cents...probably all it's worth too! lol

I plan to write as often as I can, telling about the things I have learned in my 45+ years of sewing. I have learned most of it by trial and error. It cost a lot of money to go to classes and my husband of 35 years is a retired fireman. I learned to budget well to stay at home and raise 5 kids!!!

In my sewing adventure I have expanded my world of sewing from my first machine bought used just like moms to a Brother Innov-is Embroidery machine and a lot of others in between. The old Singer 401 Slant Needle is still in my sewing room in it's original old wooden table. That old Singer machine has been the best work horse of all and is still in excellent condition with out even one professional tune up. Remember I had to budget well including learning to clean and care for my own machines. Well, since then I have added to the collection and my little sewing room is maxed out. I am also an organizational nut! Put those two together and add in there a little "can't throw that out, it might come in handy" and you have a very packed room. I plan to put pictures of my sewing room in my blog too. I took about 100 pictures yesterday just for my blog. I am excited!!!

Anyway, day by day I am going to add to my little journal for my lasting legacy in case my quilts and dolls rot too quckly...hahaha...I will post pictures of my quilts and what few dolls I have left from my doll making years. My sister and I made those Cabbage Patch type of dolls years ago and I wish I had one of those to put in my blog...mine looked like little old women in a baby's body! lol...but I made a few bucks anyway! Somebody thought they were cute...a face only a mother could love I tell you.

So, to my sister Phyllis...my sister of inspiration how is this?