I will be teaching in Tulsa Oklahoma in April

I have a few things coming up I am working awayon in the background right now.

One of these is participation in Vintage Sewing Adventure in Tulsa April 6 and 7th, 2019

I will be one of the folks meeting fellow sewing people and maybe signing a few books on the Saturday night and will be doing some teaching on the Sunday.

I am pretty excited about this event.

As those who know me either locally or from the blog will know, my sewing life is situated strongly within the culture of sewing. I see the fact I sew as part of my heritage as a woman. My own part in this is me trying to pass on some of that culture to new and returning sewers.

Every day I often feel propelled in my sewing by a connection to generations of women who sewed before me -  who worked on kitchen tables after the family had gone to bed, or laid out patterns on the broadloom before the kids came in the door after school.

In my own sewing I wish these women could know I recognize the sewing they did. I wish I could tell them I understand how in those afternoons and evenings they were disguising a drive to express some creativity in their lives with what looked, on the outside, to be just a useful activity.

This is what vintage sewing means to me, so when I was invited to be part of this event, I signed right up.

I will be speaking on what vintage sewers could teach the modern sewist and also doing a workshop on traditional, and often quirky, sewing machine attachments.

I am also really looking forward to being in Tulsa which is a new city to me.

If you are in the neighbourhood next April, stop by and let's have a chat.