I am an early retired medical professional. I loved my career, then I didn't, it was time to go.
I decided to write this blog about a year before I actually dedicated time to it. In professional retirement, I found that all that open time that I had been seeking for years, was sliding down a dark hole. As much as I wanted to spend time and be productive with my artistic work, I was fragmented and only marginally productive. Enter...blog.
The blog is a way to plan and document process, to require an accountability for myself. The gathering of information, photo's and inspiration drives my documentation.
While sewing has always been a creative outlet, over recent years I have done much less garment sewing and more quilting. Quilting provides an artists view of color and design to me. I enjoy hand quilting beyond measure, it is essentially a meditative process for me. The whole machine quilting and free-motion quilting is a work in progress. I started sewing on an old Treadle machine that belonged to my Mother's Mother in 1918. It worked quite well now that I think back on it. Since then I have had many machines with many attributes, I use them all. I document how I use those machines on Corinne in Sewtopia.
Not just a sewers documentation project, I knit and crochet, I collect things, and I cook and garden. Each of these are parts of the puzzle, a puzzle that is always in progress. I strive to document several times per week, sometimes, however, life complicates that. I do what I can.
I decided to write this blog about a year before I actually dedicated time to it. In professional retirement, I found that all that open time that I had been seeking for years, was sliding down a dark hole. As much as I wanted to spend time and be productive with my artistic work, I was fragmented and only marginally productive. Enter...blog.
The blog is a way to plan and document process, to require an accountability for myself. The gathering of information, photo's and inspiration drives my documentation.
While sewing has always been a creative outlet, over recent years I have done much less garment sewing and more quilting. Quilting provides an artists view of color and design to me. I enjoy hand quilting beyond measure, it is essentially a meditative process for me. The whole machine quilting and free-motion quilting is a work in progress. I started sewing on an old Treadle machine that belonged to my Mother's Mother in 1918. It worked quite well now that I think back on it. Since then I have had many machines with many attributes, I use them all. I document how I use those machines on Corinne in Sewtopia.
Not just a sewers documentation project, I knit and crochet, I collect things, and I cook and garden. Each of these are parts of the puzzle, a puzzle that is always in progress. I strive to document several times per week, sometimes, however, life complicates that. I do what I can.