mdwecht

Mother taught me how to sew on a Singer treadle machine, when I was 10 years old, so that I could fix my jeans and make simple projects. About the same time, my Scottish Grandmother taught me how to knit. 46 years later, I discovered YouTube and began to knit, crochet, weave, and sew like there was no tomorrow. I found Jenny's MSQC tutorials and, in the past 5 years, have added to my 3 floor looms, three sewing machines and, now during "COVID-19", a longarm machine on a 10' frame. I am a hardware/software engineer by day and use crafting as a therapeutic release. All four of my children have picked up one or more of these crafts. My oldest son likes to crochet with me when we are watching TV. My 14 year old daughter likes to help select fabric, organize colors, coordinate and arrange blocks, and recently she has been following pantographs with the longarm (cheaper than a computer and she can advance the quilt). At some point I stock piled so many items that my family convinced me to offer them for sale at a local art festival in Annapolis, MD. At the First Sunday Art Festival each month May through November I may be found in my tent under the banner "Naptown Fabric Studio" (see Facebook). It is more of a networking activity than a for-profit business. I just try to recover the cost of the materials so that I can make more stuff :-)