mom

She made this before I came along. It was on our family room wall for years. My brother has it now and when we were all visiting I told her I needed her to hold it up. It was her mom that taught her and I to sew. She listens and laughs when I ask about sewing clothes and quilts.

There are newer fads that I tell her I tried and she laughs saying that doesn't make sense, like ironing an invisible zipper before sewing it like very many suggest these days to sew closer to the teeth and then telling her my zipper gets stuck.

"What did you do"
 "I ironed it"
"You melted it!"
"The Internet told me to iron it before sewing it in!"
She laughed.

She bought me a sewing machine when I was first married. She loaned me hers when that one was in the shop. Because I sewed through my finger. Laughing, "You were rushing!"

Thankful this is a family tradition. Thankful my girls pretend to sew and are practicing and gearing up for the real thing more and more. Thankful.