When I first started working with fabric, it was hard to make it do what I wanted ….
When I first started working with fabric I got so frustrated! I wanted to make what I was seeing, what I was feeling — and I wanted to do it fast.
I sewed seams together as if they would lie flat magically, giving no thought to the laws of physics. I cut curves with abandon as if they would magically sew themselves together.
I fought the fabric and the fabric always won. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Well. It’s been a while. I’ve studied. I’ve stitched. I’ve had a few talks with my sewing machine. It has talked back to me. by snarling thread, stretching my fabric, breaking needles (oh that was me!) and running out of bobbin thread at the worst time possible.
However, miraculously, one day I realized we weren’t fighting any more. We were communicating! Smoothly and quickly. I had heard accomplished quilters say that it only took 50,000 hours to train their sewing machine, and now I knew what they meant.
Sharon Casey 