My First Issue of SewNews

by Serena Smith

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For the last two weeks I have been sorting through my pile of magazines looking for a certain placemat idea I had seen. I ran across the first issue of Sew News I received - October 2000! I remember the exact reason why I purchased that issue and started my subscription which has continued to this day.
 

On the front cover is a jacket made with a border leaf print from fleece. I loved it and especially loved the article inside showing how to cut the pattern pieces on the border! I found an even better fabric I liked inside the pages - green fleece with snowy evergreen trees as a border.



I ordered the fleece - the first time I ordered fabric from a mail order source! I was not disappointed and loved the fabric! I gathered all the supplies I needed and my green jacket is now sitting in one of my totes of fabric still with the pattern pieces waiting to be stitched. Shhh...don't tell; everyone has unfinished project...even from the year 2000! I guess it is time to get it out this winter and finish it!

It's unbelievable to look back through the magazines I have received and see how much I have learned in so many areas of sewing, quilting and embroidery! In years past when I received a new issue of Sew News, I eagerly read through it within a week! Now as I receive issues of Sew News, Creative Machine Embroidery, Embroidery Journal, Designs in Machine Embroidery, Love of Quilting, Creative Expressions and Through the Needle, I still am eager to browse each issue and see the fantastic projects I can create!



I am not able to always browse through each issue within a week. In fact, sometimes they will sit in my Reading To Do Pile for a couple months before I am able to pick it up and read it from cover to cover. But I always stash each and every issue away, knowing that one day in the future I will recall a project that I am ready to stitch or incorporate into a class I am teaching!