Grandma Borrowing.

You know it's been a while I need to write here.


So today I was with my mom shopping for dress patterns and I discovered something that I absolutely love. You may be thinking it's a particular dress but you're wrong. You see, when you go to Joanns looking for patterns you sit down at this big table and look through catalogs of dresses/shirts/pants/bags or any number of item that you can make out of fabric. Each item has a brand and number that corresponds to a drawer in a nearby cabinet that holds the pattern for whatever it is you decide to make. This sounds like a simple process, however, being an artistic and complicated person the whole thing can take hours.

ANYWAY the best part about the process is nothing that I've mentioned (that was all background). You see, it's not very often that 20 year old girls get real into sewing. I mean there are a select few like myself. But there are plenty of older ladies who take "joy" in sewing for themselves and others. THIS is the thing I was talking about. Every time, without fail, tried and true, some fantastic old woman with years of sewing experience will sit down opposite me and my mother. And everytime, without fail, tried and true, she ends up asking what we're working on, and eventually going on and on about how this is her "last project" or how "bridezilla's got her hooked again" making 25 matching dresses for girls who all CLAIM to be a size zero. Always a joy, always a pleasure, always a laugh. And besides that they're usually really good at making suggestions for your project that you would absolutely NEVER do. And as soon as they see that glimmer of disapproval on your face (no matter how hard I try it always comes out a little) they wag their hand at you and say "you girls are SO PICKY." But it's cute all the same. Like borrowing someone's grandma for ten minutes :).

Have you ever gotten the "picky" wag? Come on- We've all got grandma's let's hear it.