I am not sure what made me do it.  I just felt that I needed a sock project bag and remembered All People Quilt’s grab bag.  I cut out the peices and sewed it in an hour or maybe an hour and a half.  It was fun and I am loving it.  When I first got my sewing machine this was probably the second or third thing I made.  It was horrible.  I can’t find a picture of it.  It was a reminded of how skills change, you learn to do things and they are no longer a struggle.

I have stopped trying to cut fabric using scissors and instead use a rotary cutter. I know when I need to pin and when I can just wing it. I also know that I need to press seams out EVERY time because when I don’t my sewing looks like a cat chewed on it and then threw it in the trash. I have also learned to press fabric before I cut it, it takes 10 minutes but makes everything easier and the finished thing is always sharper.

Just like socks. My first pair of socks were terrible.  They were so terrible I threw them in the trash.  I knit a test sock in neon orange acrylic yarn.  It was so scary that I thought I would never knit another sock again.  And then I kept trying, and learning.  I can now knit socks top down, toe up, on DPNs and two at a time on one needle.  If you told me that before I had learned I would have told you that you were crazy.