ADVENTURES AND ADDICTIONS

My daughter suggested to me that maybe my "Addiction" to sewing was not helping me balance my life.

Meaning the sewing was interfering with other activities

both physical and spiritual that I should be doing more of......

Sew.....I mean; "SO"...I am going to list some things I do besides sew:

• I play with my friends. In fact I have a monthly sewing group that I meet with and we show each other the fun things we are working on. Here is the room in Annie's house where we all sew. (Yes, she is living my dream life....)



• We have "show and tell" This quilt below was made by one of the women in the group. ( No I could never make that - She is amazing..)
  

My Friend Shauna made this one;

We always have a nice lunch

Sometimes we make things for each other. One of the ladies made this cute purple bear for me. She is really good at crochet.

I made this doll for an different lady in our group. She is going to decorate a Christmas Tree for the Festival of Trees and have all her clients at Dave's Bernina in Provo make dolls like this for the tree.

• I have grandchildren
  and they love to wear cute stuff......Princess Skirts and Yoga skirts.
• Okay I found some material in my stash and what little girl doesn't like a skirt?

• My friends keep getting older sew I get them something little to celebrate
  

I made a few little make-up purses for my friends. They are small-ish but they are fun to embroider on my machine and then I can personalize them with their names.

• My Daughter's and D-in-laws keep having babies
  

I made a diaper bag for my daughter-in-law who is having a baby in a few weeks. I also made her a quilt but I forgot to snap a pic. Notice the flower on the front, it was something I learned to do in my sewing group. I always add a key ring to my purses.

• I need some clothes to take to Africa
  Yes, I am madly trying to get ready to go to Africa. I need 2-years supply of clothes that can pack easily
  
  
  
  

  

  This material has been in my stash for probably 20 years. I figured if clothes you wear on a mission are like clothes you wear when you are pregnant, you don't want anything really spiffy, just utilitarian. And in 2 years it will be ready for the trash, right? And if I am lucky it might be back in style again, what do you think?

• OKAY, SO I ADMIT I SLIPPED UP - Yes, I took a two-day quilt class last week. It was called the "UGLY QUILT" class because you use only your ugly material that you don't want to throw away. I didn't have to buy a single thing thanks to my efforts of collecting material for the last 40 years.
  
  
  
• we all cut up our squares and traded our ugly fabric
  

Then we created squares using the light and darks. We had several ladies in the class sewing away....

I have all my squares ready to sew together. Here they are on my wall. I might do a little tweaking here and there after I look at it a little more.

Sew there you go, haven't I made my case that my life is a little balanced and I don't sew all the time?

BALANCED LIFE?

It really is my goal to work more on my spiritual and physical balance along with my addiction. But I do listen to my scriptures on my I-Pod while I sew. That counts a little. BUT I still haven't figured out how to balance my sewing maching to the top of the treadmill. Sew I have more to work on I guess.