Hullo!

New blog. Content will undoubtedly be moved elsewhere at some point but I'm on summer break from my degree and itching to write about SOMEthing, so quilting it is. :D


I'm Beth, and earlier this year at the grand old age of 37 1/2 I conquered a lifelong fear of sewing through my fingers and actually learned to use a sewing machine. Oh yes! So since then I have been merrily sewing away, making all kinds of mistakes but the fingers have not been sewn. I wish I could say 'no blood was spilled' but given I sliced two fingers with the rotary cutter last month, that would be a lie. Yes, I am a total klutz. What can I say.


I've probably made more mistakes than is necessary because I'm not one to sit there and sew sensibly on scrap material, practicing... nor am I one to use patterns and follow instructions, again like any normal person would do. No, I have to dive right in with my own ideas, make the most appalling messes, unpick, figure it all out, do it again etc. Hence errors galore- points that don't 'point', corners that don't meet, wonky binding, and straight lines that would have had my old home ec teacher throwing the board rubber at me. Mrs S, I haven't changed a bit. Sorry about that.


Internet tutorials are good, though. I like them, especially short ones. And fortunately my mother is actually very good at sewing, and has been on hand to help with anything that  matters too much when you get it wrong. Like altering clothes. Although there was one time when she shortened a skirt for me when I was a teenager... well if it wasn't for the fact that SHE had shortened it, I don't think I would have been allowed out. Did I say skirt? I mean BELT... hahahah...


Ok, sewing. Onwards.