My Grandmother and I (Nannie)

  I wanted to share some of my earlier beginnings and one of the most influential women in my life and who taught me how to sew, my grandmother. I bet you thought I only sculpted!   I thought it only fitting to share as tomorrow Sept. 5th would have been her birthday.  My grandmothers name was Mary and she was a twin.  My mother always said she had more patience teaching you how to sew than she did her and that she would rather stick a needle in her eye than sew and I guess that's why my mom became a woodworker.
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I spent countless hours sitting beside my grandmother as she taught me how to sew on a old Singer push peddle sewing machine and it is one of my fondest memories.  I loved when she would take me to her upstairs and we would sort and pick out fabric from her treasures of fabrics.  I guess that is why to this day I still love going in a fabric shop and looking at all the beautiful prints.  

  I remember all the outfits she made me for Easter, a pageant  for the Old times in a complete Little House in the prairie style.  I may have to find that pic.   My most memorable and favorite was a pair of pants with little turtles on them.  
  My grandmother also taught me how to crochet and I still love sitting in the evenings on a cold fall day crocheting.  I have a blanket I have been working on for the last two years here and there using all the scraps of yarn I have.  I love the look of the older afghans and hopefully I'll finish it this winter.  

  It was later in years and when I was first married as a  Army wife in Fort Bragg NC that I continued my sewing journey.  I worked in a sewing boutique making all kinds of wedding dresses, ball gowns etc...  I was very honored when the then local news anchor woman specially ask for me to make her Christmas Ball gown that year. My grandmother was so proud and she shortly there after passed away.  I can still see the dress and I was so nervous making it.  No pics but I wish I had one.  
  Over the years I still dabbled here and there in sewing and I love making quilts.  It seems as though I haven't had as much time as I would like to sew.  I am hoping to change that a begin adding sewing to my projects.  Years ago I even sculpted and painted on fabric pieces.  No pics but I do have a few pics of some of the quilts I have made.  The one with the Dresdan plate took two years as I did the patches all by hand and yes I even used some fabric my grandmother had given me. 

 So, remember that cutsie fabric I found and wanted to make a skirt for a cutsie pumpkin?  Here is a pic and hopefully I'll be able to squeeze it in along with my many deadlines.
Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to comment if you have a fond memory.
​Wendy