Veegee's Insights on Sewing and Quilting

Today I retired to the space allotted for sewing and quilting.  Christmas is coming and I need to finish a few projects.  Don’t overlook  panels as you’re thumbing through fabrics for your next project.  And I hope you are someone who enjoys sewing.  It can occupy many quiet times, and there are tons of panels displaying almost any kind of work you want to embellish with your quilting stitches.  And… if your stitches have become larger and perhaps spaced not quite as accurately as you’d like.  Forget it!!  The recipients of these gifts will LOVE what you have done. The effort and the love “embroidered” just for them will be appreciated.  One of my favorite quilts is one I found on a table full of hand work many years ago. The pattern is called Dutch Britches, the stitches are very large, uneven and of differing colors.  I knew immediately that some “frail elder” was still plying her trade using her tested craft as best she could.  I use that quilt often. It is the warmest I have both in temp and in those love-filled irregular stitches… and it has maintained its integrity.  I am certainly not the greatest quilter, but I thank my high school econ teacher (Mrs. Dickinson) for planting this seed.  She opened a world which I have explored since those early days.               

-- Veegee