Spools Stories

Last year I wrote "A Button a Day " stories as I walked a writing journey with Patti Digh's Project 137. This year I jumped in on day 67 and chose spools of thread as my writing prompts. My grandmother was widowed when her youngest child was a baby and she raised 4 kids in part by sewing.  I have many of her sewing objects including a very old Singer sewing machine and lots and lots of spools of old thread.  I passed some on to my niece who has an Etsy shop and makes sweet, sweet Teddy Bears, but I kept some. My mother was also a seamstress long ago and made many of my clothes.
Recently I moved from my home of 40 years and gathered and organized a big big life into a small small space ( comparatively ) in my mother's home.  Though I am only a wanna be seamstress who is frustrated by inadequacy I set up a sewing table and kept gathering the remnants of generations of real sew- ers ( writing it as sewers is a dicey business ). So, ( pun intended ) when directed to gather 137  - well, 70 really - items I chose spools of thread.  Some are old, some are new, some are so dusty it is hard to tell the color, but I counted them out into a big clear cookie jar and settled down to write each day to prompts sent by Patti and "let go" at the end of each day by moving one single spool of thread from the cookie jar into another jar. One a day until December 31st. And then, a new year.
Celebrating as I go.  Reflecting. Writing.
I love to write but so rarely make time for it.  Patti helps with that.  Mary Anne Radmacher helps with it in sharing her writing practices.  Erin Millus helps by asking me often if I have starting writing again since I moved.
Well, now I can answer yes.  Yes, Erin, I have started writing again.  Thanks for asking.
Love, Gawamma Bevy
PS  stay tuned for Spool Stories