Beginnings

This is my try at blogging. I tried Facebook and found it not working for what I think I want to do. This is the next step. This first year of full retirement I decided to start several new hobbies and blogging is one of them. Last night I started the first of the new hobbies, quilting. I took my first quilting class. Beginning Cutting. How funny is that? I thought I learned to cut when I was a preschooler but let me tell you that is NOT how to cut when quilting. Besides paying for being taught I had to buy the proper cutting materials that I had not previously purchased. About 30 years ago I first decided to quilt and bought a cutter and a cutting board. They were still unused, in fact the cutter was in its original unopened wrapper. The class laughed at that but thought it admirable that I could even find the cutter - I laughed at that. I took my sewing machine in to have it serviced last Saturday so haven't finished my first trial quilt block because I was too slow at class to finish but will finish it when I get my machine back. Next week is the first of 12 monthly class for strip quilting. I will make a wall hanging or table runner each month. (Hopefully) If that goes well I will try a full sized pieced quilt this fall.

I hope to add a tidbit each day for this first year. I have never been good or consistent at journaling but this is a bit different so we'll see. On Facebook I tried my positive thinking effort at One Good Thing each day but that just didn't fit that format so I will try it again here starting today.

ONE GOOD THING: I love having the time to do what I want without major interruption, like starting this blog today.