Hello all! I have been enjoying your blog for some time and decided to join in. This year, my goal has been to learn how to sew, and wish to sew a great deal of vintage and historical items. My first historical project will be a Church Doll, as in Victorian days, as a St. Nicholas present for my daughter.
As for me, I am 30 years old, married for almost ten years to my husband, Rich, mother to four sons and a daughter, in descending order of age: Alexander, Dominic, Elijah, Amira and Jerome (who is only two months old). We live in a semi-rural area that is a bedroom community to two larger cities in our area, my husband is a pilot and airport manager and we live on the airport in a caretaker's house, I am a homemaker. Our two eldest are in private school here in town, and I am homeschooling the preschool aged children until they are ready for kindergarten.
We raise or grow much of our food and are increasing our planting and animals, I cook just about everything we eat from scratch, and am working toward making everything but flour (and even that I'd like to do occasionally) and things that we cannot grow in our area, I make yogurt, all our bread, jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and relishes and am working toward learning how to make cheeses, wines, beers and ciders. I knit, and that is my big passion, aside from cooking. I have learned how to crochet, and enjoy that as well, learned to spin a couple years ago, but don't get a chance to do so much as yet, and now am moving on to sewing as well. I would like to be able to make all of our clothing. My husband actually wants to learn how to cobble shoes.
Part of my desire to sew is to have clothes that fit and flatter my figure while being modest. I am quite busty and things that fit my top don't fit my bottom half, for instance. I imagine that I will lurk here more than post, as I am still a rank beginner at sewing, but I may ask questions.
edited to add: For those of you interested, you can read about my knitting and family at my blog Arabian Knits.