To celebrate National Sewing Month, Brenda @ Songbird Designs and Melva @ Melva Loves Scraps organized the Get On Board with Sewing Blog Hop. I want to thank them for including me in this blog hop. The entire schedule is listed below, as well as the giveaways.
The challenge was to " Sew something that ties into the theme and then write about it: Your “something” could have a tropical or surf feel. It can be clothing, a quilt, a bag, a toy, or whatever you choose! It might include some tropical themed fabric or novelty print… or not.
About my sewing history: When I started middle school I wanted to take choir. My mother told me I could take Home Ec and learn to sew and cook instead, "I can sing anytime". The Christmas of my 13th year I received this for Christmas.
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A Singer sewing machine in a wooden case. I sewed on this until my husband got me a Singer Touch and Sew in about 1973. During high school I made my own clothes, plus clothes for my mother and sister. My mother did let me use her fancy dancy Singer when she asked me to make her clothes so I could use the zig-zag.
Fast forward a number of years, and I was married and had my first child, and I still made quite a few of our clothes with the Touch and Sew. When I married, I discovered my mother in law made quilts. She would cut them out with scissors and templates and could hand piece and quilt a quilt in a month or maybe a little more. I loved the quilts she made me. In about 1994 I took some classes at the local quilt store and started my own quilting adventure. My dear father-in-law had developed Alzheimer's and I figured with her caregiving of him, I wasn't going to get many more quilts. Some of the first quilts I made were for my Auntie in Arkansas, my mother in law, and my mother.
I have a funny story to tell about one of my other machines. One time I visited my mother in law in San Diego and we put my father in law in day care and went to some quilt shops. She was a great garage sale shopper, and they used to go out every weekend and check them out. She could see a garage sale out of the corner of her eye and ask to stop. I asked her if she had ever seen a featherweight at a garage sale, and she she hadn't. We were driving home that day and she got to thinking about a machine she had found at a garage sale in the garbage. She asked the sellers about it and they said she could have it for free. She paid $65 to get it serviced. So when we got back home she drug out a machine from the closet, and it was a featherweight. She said since my birthday was coming up, I could have it. So I took it home on the plane with me as a carryon.
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My Project for the Get On Board with Sewing Blog Hop: I decided to finish a quilt top I had made in 2019 as part of a mystery Quilt Along that was given by Partners in Design on Facebook. This was a group of quilt designers/bloggers on Facebook. Every two weeks we received a new block to work on. It was called Sew Lets Quilt Along, and I posted about finishing the flimsy here on September 5, 2019.
So I finished quilting this top which has a quilting theme.
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Be sure and visit the other bloggers in the hop below.
Thursday, September 1
Anorina – Samelia’s Mum
Denise – For the Love of Geese
Cheree – The Morning Latte
Brenda – Songbird Designs
Friday, September 2
Karen – Karen’s Korner
Nancy – Grace and Peace Quilting
Sharon & Susan – Ms P Designs USA
Nina-Marie – Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever
Monday, September 5
Karrin – Karrin’s Crazy World
Linda – Texas Quilt Gal
Yvonne – Quilting Jetgirl
Emily – The Darling Dogwood
Tuesday, September 6
Gail – Quilting Gail
Joy – Days Filled with Joy
Melisa – Pinker ‘n’ Punkin Quilting & Stitching
Carol – Quilt Schmilt
Wednesday, September 7
Melva – Melva Loves Scraps
Tammy –Tamarinis
Leah – Quilted Delights
Patricia – Faith, Trust & Breast Cancer
