I’ve started…but will I finish?
Mum taught me how to use a sewing machine as a child
and I’ve been making stuff with it, on and off, ever since. Every so often I
set up the machine on the table in the window and, full of enthusiasm, I embark
on creating something new in much the same way as I embark on writing a new
story.
I don’t know where ideas for stories come from but sometimes it’s a something on the news or overheard in the street and plots and characters demand I do something about them right now. With sewing sometimes it’s some fabric, or a paper pattern that catches my imagination. Often it’s seeing something in a shop that’s way out of my budget and thinking: I could make something like that. But whatever the spark, the process of putting together a sewing project is very much like putting together a story.
