Good morning and Happy Monday sewing friends!! I don’t have much to announce today but I wanted to pop in and say Hi and wish you all a blessed week ahead. Today’s prompt is:Sewing Confession. I hesitated for half a second sharing this here because I want all of you to learn to sew CORRECTLY and not start out with bad habits. SO this is definitely one of those cases where I offer the proverbial “Do as I say not as I do” advice. Of course, I KNOW that everyone develops habits and shortcuts as they go along and we all develop methods that work for our individual styles. HOWEVER, learn the correct Way first. OK stepping down from my “sewing box” Again I hope you all have the best week ever! 💕

I did it! 😃 I made the pillow assignment. Actually, I made 3. The first one I got all done with and then realized the kittens were wrong side out. So I bought more fabric and made two 18" x 18" pillows. The back sides are cat paws. My sewing experience is odd, maybe. My mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and probably beyond that were all excellent seamstresses. I grew up at their knees learning to sew. But instead of becoming an excellent seamstress, I became an intimidated woman, afraid of sewing. Besides that, I always got their hand-me-down sewing machines which always needed to go to the repair shop and get a tune-up, so all my attempts to sew on my own were fights with the sewing machines. Now I own a new Singer Heavy Duty 4452. (I have other hand-me-downs, though.) I am Gen X and old enough that in school, I had to take Home Economics. So I also had sewing training in school. Even learned to iron! Ha Ha! I enjoyed taking this beginning sewing class because it made me sew. I could follow along each step of the way and build my confidence. Which I did! I am really excited to dive into the next Intermediate class. And Rebecca, you just showed a zipper pouch (I actually saw it on YouTube). Can you do a tutorial here on making that. I'd like to have the handholding with them.

I am so proud of myself!!! First dress that actually fit properly!!!! I even went out in public in it lol got a couple more things to do but I am loving it!!

Decided to make a purse. Designed it, used 1 1/2 fat quarters and sewed it together. So much fun to do and easy, peasy.

I've started another series to add to my "Classy Trash Caddy", "Sassy Sniffles & Sneezes" and I'm calling this one "Fancy Functionals" :) A set of 4 coasters created in the same manor Rebecca created the hot pad :) I'm working on some other things to add to the Fancy Functionals & hope to finish them tomorrow so I can post them.