Dear Reader,
When I don't want to follow the rules, when I feel like being mischievous, I dust off my sewing machine and make a quilt. I require a lot of myself and whenever I decide to do something, I want to do it right or not at all. But when I make a quilt, I don't care about the right and wrong way of doing it.
I go to the fabric store, pick out different materials I like and estimate how much I'm going to need. I don't care if I don't buy enough material and can't get more if I need it. If that happens, I just deal with it.
Not going to worry about a thing. That's pretty much the way that I attack my quilts. I don't really know how to sew a quilt the correct way. My stitches could be neater, the lines could be straighter, but heaven forbid I'd take a class to learn how, because if I did, then I'd ruin it. You see, making a quilt is the one activity that I just do. I don't care if it's perfect or not. I sit down at the machine, start sewing with no particular idea in mind and see what I end up with. It wouldn't even bother me if I accidentally ruined the whole thing. I'd just toss it out. (But that's never happened.) Every time I've made a quilt, just letting my imagination run wild, I've ended up with something that reminds me that sometimes, it's okay to break all the rules.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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