so sew.

For the last three or four weeks, I'm been on the hugest sewing kick. I mean, I've had a sewing machine for years, but it took me a while to get to know it, befriend it. That's just what I did this month, and we are attached at the hip. A goal I made at the beginning of the year is to finally make a quilt. It seemed like a very huge task for my beginning sewing skills, but turns out, making a quilt isn't all that tough (making a GOOD quilt is the tough part).

I went and picked out fabric at Nuttall's in American Fork and created a pattern in my head. I watched a beginner's tutorial on craftsy that was comprehensive and excellent, and then I felt ready to go. From beginning to end, it was done in about two weeks. My favorite part, by far, was piecing the front. The worst, by a mile, was the binding (edges). My fingers hurt from the frequent use of the seam ripper. But from afar it's exactly how I wanted it to look and isn't half bad. Lately I've been really needing a creative outlet, and I'm happy to have found it in sewing. I'm obsessed! I've completely taken over our dining room table with fabric, needles, rotary cutter, oh my.