Tag Archives: Sewing Room

Feb2

Sewing Rooms

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Every girl needs a sewing room. A place to grow and be the creative she means to be.

Sewing Room cross stitch by Stashing Sister Bobette
Stasher Bobette is also a master at cross stitch.

The confession above sounds a lot like Mary in the musical version of “The Secret Garden” as she sings ‘The Girl I Mean to Be” by Daisy Eagan:

I need a place where I can go
Where I can whisper what I know
Where I can whisper who I like
And where I go to see them

I need a place where I can hide
Where no one sees my life inside
Where I can make my plans and write them down
So I can read them

A place where I can bid my heart be still
And it will mind me
A place where I can go when I am lost
And there I’ll find me

I need a place to spend the day
Where no one says to go or stay
Where I can take my pen and draw
The girl I mean to be.

Sep8

Alone and Happy

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Ever wish you had more sewing time?   How about alone time?  Perhaps the two combined would be a euphoric experience. Looking through some old Quilter’s Newsletter magazines I came across an article describing one woman’s experiences in her sewing space.

Note:  You need not resubscribe to magazines if you keep your old copies long enough  That’s because you’re likely to forget everything you read more than 2 years ago.  It’s like  getting a new magazine with every old issue!

On to Alison Bolt’s writing.   Hope you enjoy these excerpts from “The Joy of Being Sew Alone” p. 22 Quilters Newsletter July/August 2008.

“Last week, as I listened to the radio  . . . I heard the repetitive strains of a familiar oldies tune, “One is the loneliest number . . . ”  I thought to myself, no wife or mother Read the rest of this entry →