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when i was in sixth grade, me and my friends cheryl and jennifer started the “sexy sewing circle”— i am not really sure how this name was chosen, but i do remember we were all obsessed in a furtive way with our newly developing breasts
we would meet after school in one of our bedrooms to make barbie doll clothes— jennifer’s mom sewed and she took us to elisa’s yardage down in kirkwood plaza where we got a multi pattern envelope of barbie fashions including a strapless evening dress and a big bell bottomed jumpsuit
we would painstakingly cut out and hand stitch our barbie couture with varying rates of success and have whispered discussions of boys, breasts and other not nearly so memorable topics
i still love creating with fabric and i’ve got a whole pile of projects waiting— curtains for my vardo, my forest mother dress for a storytelling theme, some work smocks and a colored pencil case!— i am still wanting to participate in the grown ups coloring book craze ;)
this week i’m struggling to engage with all the tool oriented tasks that need to be done inside my vardo where i feel inadequate and overwhelmed, so i’m taking refuge in front of my sewing machine where i feel like a pro
i want to start another sewing circle but this time to make quilts for kids in the foster system and soldiers far from home— maybe that will end up being the bright side of the delta variant casting all my travel plans into doubt once again
yummier than a stack of pancakes!
