Silver Linings in a Pandemic

 At Hip Stitch: 

Maria

Maria came to take a class in September - garment making. During a break in the class, she and I wer e chatting in the kitchen. We have a storage cabinet in the kitchen where there's a collage of photos of customers from over the years. Suddenly Maria stopped talking and said "that's my daughter!" Sure enough, her daughter, who is now a freshman in college, was in a picture when she was......6? Holding a sweet little doll she made at Hip Stitch!

Now THAT was a really neat moment!

Making this week:

The sweater is looking like a sweater!  Bring the time change and the cold weather on.....I'm ready for you!

Learned this week:

Remembering how much I LOVE to teach, but during a pandemic, the choice I made to move to private lessons from teaching a group was a GREAT decision.  I've been doing exclusively private lessons for about 6 weeks now, and have taught folks how to use their machine, how to read a pattern, how to sew curves, how to make alterations - giving individual attention to someone and following them on the path they're on is so much fun - in these mask wearing days, it's much for meaningful to sit side by side and make eye contact and have a geniune conversation!