Just call me a seamstress, but don't ask me to sew anything without supervision
So my friend Kristine is having a baby. I tried to convince her that she didn’t want to have a child for a few more years, but she didn’t take my advise. I know what you are thinking, “why would you not want your friend to have a baby?” Well people, when you are the only single one left out of all your friends you do whatever you can to keep things the way they are. And babies ruin everything.
Ok, they don’t. Please don’t hate me for saying that. I hear you judging me through my computer. But really, babies definitely change a person. And when that change makes them not relate to me, I don’t really like it. Don’t get me wrong, I love all my friends and their children. But the older we get, the more separated we are becoming. It’s one of the parts of my life that does actually make me very sad. Not sad that I am not married or have children, but sad that I can see distance growing with friends of mine that I have had for over 10 years. Two different chapters in life, one not better than the other, but two different chapters nonetheless.
Well this post is becoming depressing. So let me get back on track.
I wanted to do something different for Kristine and her new baby. And so by some unforeseen reason, I thought I would make a quilt. And let it be said, I don’t sew. Penel is an excellent seamstress. However, that talent was not bestowed upon me. But, I did get her Greek skin so I thank her for that.
Anyway, Penel loves to quilt and had a darling pattern for a baby quilt. The next thing I know I am buying fabric and asking the 80 year old lady behind the counter to cut me pieces in “fat quarters”. I don’t really know what that means. But she did. Apparently, I really need to read up on my fabric lingo. Also, as a side note – every time I go into a fabric store I have to pee. Why is this? Odd.
My mother was an angel and walked me through step-by-step what I needed to do. Cut here, iron here, pin here, sew here. I told her numerous times that sewing was not in my line of work – all the while hoping that she would volunteer to do the sewing for me. But she’d look at me, smile and say “you’re doing great.” Um, no Mom, that was not the correct answer. Let’s try again.
Kidding. Sort of.
After about 100 mistakes (all of which Penel quickly fixed), 800 pricks by those damn pins and just a few (more) cuss words, I managed to finish the quilt. Well, almost finish. The backing, binding and actual hand quilting part still need to be done. All of which will be done by my mom. She’s truly an angel. And well, she knew all that was beyond my capability.
Here’s a picture of me with the almost finished quilt. I’ll leave the totally finished piece for Kristine to be the first to see.
It really does pay to have a talented mother. Now, if I could just get her to cook all my meals for me we would really be in business.
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Just call me a seamstress, but don't ask me to sew anything without supervision
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