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December 23, 2022
 I'm sure you all are planning all the last-minute goodies for family and celebrating the holidays. Walt's son is coming in and despite the very frigid temperatures for the southern plains, the roads are passable - we are all just dribbling water from the faucets for the very low temps over
the weekend. (OK no guffaws from you in the northern tier of states, but for we southerners this is COLD!) The outside feels like the wonderful header village art!
This is a time I count my blessings and am most thankful for my followers out in the sewing world. I love having you here and love sharing with "like kind" the joys of sewing, creating, making and fitting, fashion (really pretty fashion), and comfort. I enjoy hearing your dilemmas and no I'm not currently under the care of a shrink, it's just that each dilemma does have has a solution. Like a lot of things in life, there are probably 15 right ways to do something and all we need to do is find the one that works best for you.
It's also a time to count our gifts and talents. And each of you share in that gift and talent to be curious, want the best for yourself and willing to work toward that excellent ending. Many people go through life without even knowing that there is an excellence, much less how to get it. I see this every day in the eyes of my design business clients who look at me and say, "You mean I can have it customized!" Yes, you can, but we sewists know that.
We also have the gift of using our tactile senses and the joy that brings. More and more scientific research shows that as little babies, the sensory awareness we developed first was our tactile - touching sense. We stuck our fingers in our mouth, then our whole fists, then our fingers in our noses and ears and belly button. This is how we discovered the world. To tap into that sensory awareness again through assembling a project (which also uses our problem-solving
grey matter), brings another great sense of satisfaction. After all, when it fits, you don't need anyone to tell you that it's working - you can see and feel it yourself. That sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
Finally our problem-solving that we use to make the whole garment work, no matter what technique, system, fabric, pattern we use, the working through a problem, is like a wonderful work-out for our grey matter. This is more than keeping your smarts active and working. It also has to do with your body. For when we are constantly working toward a solution, our body is up and wandering around working at making that solution a reality. Even when we have our to-go core
patterns finished, the problem-solving does not stop. It becomes even more fun with challenges of variations, designs that work and deleting those designs that don't. All that wonderful exercising our grey matter is not only fun, but keeps us active in so many wonderful ways. I personally think the best way is that it gives us a reason to get out of bed in the morning with a mission:
- Maybe I can find that fabric on a store online
- Maybe I can use a slightly different fabric
- Maybe I can alter the pattern slightly to accommodate that designing fabric
- I need the right length for my hoodie jacket
- I need a light-weight jacket for summer evenings
- I need pants to go with my heavy-duty hoodie jacket
Suddenly the grey matter is swirling around in wonderful arrangements that would make a fractal jealous. But the fun part is that we become alive and active with our ideas that cause our grey matter to start twitching with excitement to find a solution for our latest variation or mission in core pattern uses.
This Christmas has many blessings and many new things to look forward to. For now, enjoying the season of celebration then the calm of winter, has become a wonderful time of solace and rejuvenation. We need the "downtime" to make for the new ideas of the new year.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!!!
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