For the Love of Sewing - Lessons Learned in my First Year

*the following article was written by me and first appeared in Issue 6 of One Thimble Magazine (affiliate link)

Just over one year ago I began sewing more seriously and jumped in to the online sewing and blogging community.  It’s been a great year.  I never could have imagined the techniques I would learn in just one year or the projects I would be able to complete.  When I began, my sewing history consisted of the occasional valance, curtain, or Halloween costume.  About a year before I really took up sewing, I sewed a ruffled crib skirt for my first daughter and it was a huge deal to me that I even attempted it, let alone completed it.  Even though I sewed occasionally, I had the idea that I couldn’t sew, really.  In my mind, there were Those Who Can Sew, and then I was in the other group with people who could not.  Through the encouragement of a few friends and the generous loan of a newer sewing machine, I tentatively tested the waters in the pool of Those Who Can Sew and I never came back.

I am still learning and as I celebrated my one-year blog birthday [in January 2015], I took time to reflect on significant lessons from my first year of seriously sewing.

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