30 days about me – day 19

I have a variety of talents – such as the ability to pee in four seconds – but I don’t think that is what Toni was looking for when she asked us to share a talent or hobby for the 30 Days About Me series.

One hobby I am developing is sewing.   As a young girl,  my mother often talked about how my great-grandmother was an excellent seamstress who could whip up anything.   She made several dresses and coats for my mother and her sister.   I’d always wanted to learn,  sadly my great-grandmother passed away five years before I was born,  and neither my mother or grandmother had picked up the craft.

My mother had a sewing machine –  it was a gift from my father the Christmas I’d turned five, I remember that because that was the Christmas I received my purple bike  – she’d planned to teach herself so that she could teach me.    She lost interest,  or maybe I did.   I wouldn’t learn to sew until sixth grade home economics class.   Nonetheless,  I acquired that old sewing machine about six years ago.   Along with it was  fabric pinned to a skirt pattern that my mother started to make for me…when I was five years old.

That old sewing machine sat in my garage in Orlando, untouched.   I packed it up and moved it with us to Boston.  Where it sat in our garage again, untouched.   When we relocated to Cape Cod,  I moved it again.   This time to the basement.    My laundry room is in the basement,  and I’d look at it every time I went downstairs.   I finally hauled it upstairs and have started to sew again.   Yes, it’s just like riding a bike!  I was a bit rusty on the how-to-thread-it part!!

I’ve whipped up a curtain to hide our unsightly cat litter box.   And a few zippered clutches.   And I even hemmed a lined, silk dress for my mother.   {That one was scary!}

I have dreams a goal to open my own shop soon.   I am toying with ideas for names.   Should I keep it similar to my blog name,  or something completely different?    Open to suggestions!