the fabric pile

7 am and the air conditioner has been blowing for 3 days! i turned it off and opened the window-nature, birds singing, cars driving by-there is a world out there.
i was beginning to feel like i lived in a meat locker, closed off from the world and only experiencing 1 climate!

i have been digging through bags of fabric given to me by friends who know i like fibers! sadly jean's grandmother died and she had tons and tons of fabric. this lady must have been the Knowledge of Sewing. myself, i am finally getting past stitch witch, the incredible way to sew everything with your iron! i have been dragging around a sewing machine that santa brought me on my 9th christmas. numerous times i threatened it with being smashed under the wheel of my car, being thrown on the lawn to slowly sink into the dirt, plenty of curses, and quite possible a couple of swift kicks. but for some reason i never followed through on any of my threats. last fall my mother finally FINALLY showed me how to adjust the tension. i had no idea that you had to adjust the bobbin tension. wow i could sew. santa had brought a slightly used machine with no book to tell me how to use it and my mother was a sewer and assumed everyone could just do it!

(can you imagine kids getting something used from santa and not bitching about it today?)

i was excited with my new found freedom to make what we could not afford to buy. unfortunately, this ended in an endless array of sewing projects that barbie could not even fit in-i was trying to make this for myself!

now that i have conquered the mysteries of the machine i have been doing some art quilting and look forward to much more with the fabric donation. i already saw a piece that i think would make a nice skirt-dare i? not ready for zippers but maybe some velco! covered up with fake buttons!

thanks jean and jim!