Today’s 31 Days of Blogging prompt is “earliest sewing memory” so I did a little digging into old photos!
I started quilting on my own — I didn’t have a parent or grandparent who quilted, like many quilters do. But I was always crafty as a kid and had examples of sewing and stitching in my life even when I was young.
My mom had a sewing machine that she used to make the occasional kid outfit or costume. A few that I recall are this devil costume when I was 3, a Maid Marian (in fox form, a la the Disney movie) Halloween costume when I was probably 4, and a St. Catherine of Siena nun costume she helped me make for my 10th grade class’s Medieval Festival.
She also helped me with the t-shirt quilt I made in December 2003 — which was really my first quilt, even though I didn’t start quilting in earnest for another 8 years.
And while it’s technically different from sewing, I also remember my grandmother doing a lot of cross stitch and crochet. She made these two pieces for me as a baby in the late 70s, and now I have them hanging in my girls’ rooms 40+ years later! I cross stitched here and there in middle school and high school, although I don’t think I have any of those projects except a Christmas tree ornament.
With my obsession strong interest in sewing now, it’s fun to look back and see traces of it were there all along!
p.s. I’m doing a 31 day blogging challenge.
How wonderful – all of it! I love the ‘traces’ as you call them!