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Waiter, there’s a quilt pin in my soup
So, a diner calls over the
server and says: “Waiter,
there’s a quilt pin in my
soup.” No, it’s not a joke;
there’s no punchline.
It’s the reality of anyone
who uses a table where
family and friends gather
to indulge in the passion
for quilting.
From now on, guess
what’s not coming to
dinner? Pins. I’m no
longer using the dining
room as a cutting and
design surface. Dinner
guests are, in a word,
relieved.
A bit of history here: I’m a life-long
maker of stuff. I have made room for
making for as long as I can remember.
By the time I was 16, I had a machine
that did zigzag stitches and a sewing
area in the family’s recreation room.
When I moved out on my own, I had
turned my machine into a portable
dynamo that could create anything,
anywhere, at anytime. Back then, I was
sewing clothes, making curtains or
cushions to disguise the ever deteriorating condition of my sofa bed. Most of
my sewing stuff had to fit into a corner
of a closet, in a plastic storage tote.
Then, I discovered quilting and other
creative sewing. My collection of stash
fabric and notions exploded.
I know, I don’t have to explain.
By then, we had our first house. It was
small and had few multipurpose areas.
The kitchen also became my sewing
room, and the kitchen table often
played host to my creative pursuits.
That’s when I discovered the necessity
of a magnetic pin wand. I needed to
pick up errant pins before the sock
clad feet of guests and family members found them. There was mention
made of giving up creative pursuits
for lack of space. I would have none
of it, and did my best to avoid the
unwelcome dinner pins.
Fast forward to now. Finally, I’ve a
sewing space that’s almost all my own.
Technically it’s a den, but really, it’s a
poorly insulated, over-the-garage bedroom. But, it also has almost floor-toceiling windows. My sewing studio is
sort of cold in the winter, and way too
hot in the summer, but it’s all mine.
If it has any real flaws at all, it’s that
there’s no room for a cutting table —
or so I thought.
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