So here’s the little apron that started my whole love affair with the sewing machine!
With my mom’s help, I made this apron using a sewing pattern for the first time ever. This was around 2002 or 2003? I’m not quite sure but the kids were really little. I learned to read the pattern, cut the fabric, sew the pieces together and press. My mother would show me a step then watch my little babies while I completed the step! Then she’d show me the next step. It was an eye opener to me and I finally understood why my mom and her mom before her loved to sew! It was fun! It was creative! It was something other than changing diapers and picking up toys off the floor. Do you know what I mean? Not that changing diapers and picking up toys off the floor wasn’t enough for me but this was exhilarating!
The little apron was used for cooking and then obviously for art purposes. I remember setting the girls up in the kitchen with all kinds of crafts and we pretended to be on the Carol Duvall Holiday Workshop tv show!! Lol!! Yes, they will have plenty to share with a therapist some day.
This apron led to Amanda asking me to make her a dress which led to multiple dresses which led to skirts and ponchos and then finally a foray into quilting.
I’m linking up with Quiltin Jenny for Throwback Thursday!
Have a good day!
3 responses to “Throwback Thursday”
Like you, my first sewing endeavor was also an apron, then pillow cases, and then learning to read a pattern and making clothes. It was instant love. I was in home ec in the 9th grade. I continued to sew making clothes, drapes, etc. My mom didn’t sew at all so I learned from my home ec teacher and then taking classes. My first quilt was a McCalls (I think) pattern of a sleeping cat/dog? covered to the chin – my first applique only I didn’t know that was what it was.
What a great story Sandi! 🙂
I love looking back to see how it all began! Did you ever think, 11 or 12 years ago, that you’d be here? With your name and patterns in magazines?
That apron symbolizes so much.
Thanks for linking up!