Welcome to my blog!

I am an avid (read obsessive) blog reader and figured it was time to start my own blog to document my newest hobbies, sewing and quilting, along with other random things like gardening, cooking, and remodeling.  I'm lucky to have a wonderful husband that joins me in the gardening and cooking and is really the brains and brawn behind the remodeling.

My love for sewing and quilting has really taken off in the last couple of years. There is such a satisfaction in creating something from scratch and then admiring the final result knowing that YOU made it. My mother was an excellent seamstress who made most of our (mine and my sister's) clothes when we were kids and I remember her countless hours in the sewing room making the perfect outfit for one occasion or another. Unfortunately we didn't always appreciate this as kids, especially when we were standing in the store begging her to buy one thing or another and she would say, "I can make that." The truth is that she could and she did. In my late primary school years my mother actually bought a fabric store and my sister and I often accompanied her to work in the store on Saturdays and weekdays during the summer. We learned a lot of great lessons working in the shop and I have very fond memories of those times. It was actually great quality mother-daughter time.

So, all of this is to say that a couple years back I resolved to pick up this hobby that my mother so patiently and vigorously worked to pass along to my sister and me. I have loved every moment of it, even when some days I feel like I take out more stitches than I put in. It has been a great and rewarding creative outlet. My husband has said that the sewing machine he bought me two Christmases ago was the best gift he has ever given me. I couldn't agree more!

Finally, the title of the blog, "The Sew-n-So Place," is a beautiful reminder of the many lessons, some related to sewing and many not, that my mom so lovingly taught me. This was the name of her fabric shop. Although my mother passed away almost 10 years ago, I feel her with me every time I sit down at the sewing machine.