The Third Prayer

Tomorrow I celebrate my one year anniversary of learning to sew.  Mary Rene was just four months young, so helpless, and needed me so much.  But Frank agreed to watch our little princess while my mom spent the day over our house teaching me how to cut fabric, pin pieces together and final, sew.  Mary Rene cried for me to hold her, and I would stop occasionally to do so, and then get back to learning.  Frank did a good job of keeping his baby girl happy so his wife could learn from her mom all the tricks and trades of sewing.

And it paid off.  My mom helped me complete my first sewing project which was a pair of pants and a hat for Mary Rene.

Later my mom finished the outfit by making a matching shirt.

Slowly, but surely, I learned to sew by myself.  At first it would take me weeks to finish a project.  I had a make shift area in our front room and my sewing machine was on a tv tray.  I would sew while Mary Rene napped or when she was doing tummy time.

But soon, Mary Rene was getting mobile and it was too dangerous to keep my sewing machine upstairs.  So I carved out a nice little section of the basement and made it my own.

I have two sewing machines now and most of the time they both sit on the floor.  When I decide to sew, I pull the machine up on a tv tray.  My sewing inspiration?  A beautiful picture of my mom from her senior year of high school.

In one year I have sewn Mary Rene:

• Two pairs of pants
• Three hats
• One jacket
• Two pairs of leg warmers
• Five dresses (although most of them my mom had to finish because I ran out of time)
• One Halloween costume
• Assisted my mom in making a diaper bag (she did most of the work)
• One shopping cart cover
• One stuffed animal toy chest

Here are just a few samples from that collection:

 

 

 

  

  

  

 

I’ve sewn my mom:

• a purse
• a heart shaped cushion to hold her sewing pins
• a sewing organizer that fits under her machine and holds various items

 

For myself:

• a shirt (it will be a maternity top and I will show it off when I get bigger!)

For other people:

• One pair of baby shoes
• One baby cube
• Two shopping cart covers
• Countless taggie blankets

 

In one year, I’ve done a lot of sewing.  And I’m looking forward to sewing much, much more this coming year.  To celebrate my one year anniversary, my mom will be teaching my friend Nicole C how to sew.  And if I’m lucky, I’ll do a little sewing too.

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