Welcome

After reading sewing blogs for a few years now, I've finally decided to start my own.  This blog will document my sewing successes, failures, and some of what is happening in my life.

I started sewing in high school when my aunt offered to teach me.  My mother has never enjoyed sewing or other crafts.  I thinks she's always been a little surprised that I do.  In her generation, progressive women got jobs and bought their clothes at the store.  In my generation, homemaking is considered a valid choice for women who have other career possibilities.

My career path was fairly linear.  I have a BS: Business Administration and a Master of Accounting degree, both from nationally-ranked programs.  I hold CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner,) CPA (Certified Public Accountant in the USA and Charted Professional Accountant in Canada) and CA (Charterd Accountant) designations.  I have worked with large, publicly held corporations and some by small businesses, mainly in the areas of internal controls, regulatory compliance, and board/executive coaching.  I had opportunities to travel to many interesting places, some internationally.  Throughout this time, my job was higher paying, but not because I was working harder or my job was more important.  My husband is in a career that depends heavily on right time and place meetings with decision makers and he had been trying for a long time to transition from part time to full time in his field.  The opportunity that opened up was in a rural, agricultural community in another country.  Four years ago, my family moved to Canada from the southeastern United States.

One of the things for which I am thankful is that I've had the time to learn and develop my hobbies.  In the past few years, I've been knitting, crocheting, cross stitching, and embroidering.  And working part time (we live in an agricultural area and there just isn't that much demand for the type of work I do).   I'm starting this blog partly because not everyone on Facebook needs to see progress photos of various crafty things.  But some will.