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I want to learn to sew and my mom did try to teach me some, but now that she is gone I don't have anyone to help me. Last summer I got my Grandma's sewing machine that she made my mom's clothes on back in the mid to late 30's. It still works, but I can't figure out how to set it up to sew. I do want to take lessons someday.

I wanted to do a memory quilt about my mom and I am not sure how to go about that, but I know I want to take lessons on how to do that too.

The only crafts I do is scrapbooking and I did make some hanging candle holders too.

I am going to get off of this chair, go brush my teeth, shower and sew.

I am now wokring on another vest. Will try to cut out a jumper in the next day or two. I really want to try the quilting thing.

So i have this jacket and it has this hidden pocket and the sticking came undone how would i go about fixing it
Becca

I made my in-laws a quilt with pictures for their 50th anniversary. It was a lot of work, but ended up ok. I put the picture in my pictures.

Its beautiful! You did a fabulous job!

Thanks, it was my first one, I thought about giving up several times. I just played around until I got what I wanted. You shouldn't look at it up close though. I try to sew. I have a problem with measurements. I always make things way to big for me. I knitted a sweater once that went to my knees and scrubs that fell off of me. I'm not sure why, I guess I always feel I should make it just a bit bigger and before I know it...I can't wear it.

I just came from a sewing club meeting. Several in there are quilters, knitters. Hope to learn from them

Thats what I want to know. How did you do it?

yup, use the transfer paper. I went to kinkos and they frowned on the idea of using the copy machines to copy the pictures. I bought the paper at a craft stores and wal-mart and used my home copier. I believe the pattern for the quilt was the log cabin. It seemed the easiest to use and I changed things with the mistakes I made and boy there were a lot of mistakes!

It is surprising to me how many of us nurses don't know how to sew. I was brought up in Europe after world war II and there was nothing. So as a girl you wanted nice cloths and if you can not sew you did not have anything. So to me it is very normal that you can make your own clothes and what ever else you want to make. I am doing a lot of quilting now. But I am also altering scrubs for coworkers and making scrub tops and buttums. It is easy to do and always a succes. So if there are questions I can answer pls let me know.

For one kind of memory quilt send a 4 and 1/2 in piece of musling to each family member and ask them to write a short story or just sign it. (use acid free pens) then put a colored square on each side. I made a special two sided quilt Trip aroung the World on one side and Candy Wrapper on the other. On the Candy wrapper side I had everyone at my parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary party sign it and it is a great memory of that special day for them They even have it on their bed.

thanks sandy. I will look for the quilt books.

Sounds like a good book. I will look for it. I bought a couple of "2 Hour patterns" the two hour projects have taken as long as two weeks for me.