Welcome to Sarah's Craftbox!
This site is being created as a place for fellow craft lovers to find resources, including basic skill instruction, projects, and links to some of the best craft resources available.
Above: Sewing my wedding dress, 2006
It all started for me with some thread, a needle, and a paper plate. I desperately wanted to create something. I dug into my mom's old sewing box, covered with thick dust, and found some pretty thread and some needles. But where was I going to find cloth? I didn't even know what I wanted to make, but I knew sewing involved a needle, thread and cloth. After searching in vain, I grabbed a paper plate out of desperation and created a very basic picture on it, as a gift for my mother.
I didn't know about cross stitching, needlepoint, or any type of embroidery. I just felt an innate pull toward all things crafty. The next year, I discovered the wonderful world of public adult education classes. I quickly begged my mother to enroll me in the basic sewing class. As a 13 year old girl, lugging my mother's 1970's 15lb Kenmore sewing machine into a room full of 30-somethings, I was on cloud nine.
The very first thing we made was a simple jean jumper, a soccer mom's outfit that a teenager would have looked ridiculous in. This didn't bother me, however, as I did not yet have any sense of style whatsoever. I carefully followed the instructor's directions for each step. When she told me to sew just as close to the edge of a hem as I could, I slowly guided the needle along the very most edge of the fabric. I can still hear the teacher's words when she came back to check on me, "Children are so literal..."
Well, ever since then I've been totally hooked on crafting of all kinds. Sewing, knitting, crocheting, embroidery, quilting, paper-crafts, and even Native American traditional crafts. It is my escape and my addiction.
If you can relate to any of this, or if you feel a pull to do something actively creative in our passive TV watching, PC worshiping world, you've found the right place!
