Amber and I had such a good time sewing together the other night and discussed the revival of our Sewing Party that seemed to fizzle out last winter. It had gone on for so long and seen so many good times that it broke my heart thinking about it almost all of last year. She and I decided that we would make the attempt at resuscitation this month. And so we have.

I have had the feeling that the label "Sewing Party" didn't give the full spectrum of what we enjoyed at our get-togethers so I thought through some ideas for a new title and came up with "Girls In Stitches". I hope that it does the trick. I'm not even sure if Amber likes it to be honest...she didn't say. I wanted to communicate the idea that this is a girls night, but of course that usually connotes more of a social gathering which this is, but more than that it's a night to be creative and productive. Then I tried to come up with some sewing/crafting phrases and of course in stitches is just a fun play on words. I mean...it totally says it to me. We laugh a lot when we get together and what could be more complete than Girls In Stitches right? Amber didn't object so I went with it. I created a flyer, we sent it out to old friends and new and as a result we are looking at a group of 6 on Tuesday night.

I also created a blog a while back just for our sewing parties and since the change of name I edited and revamped and did a little writing. Amber edited a paragraph or two and gave the thumbs up on the blog and we are up and blogging. So...check it out...when you get a chance and look for all the up and coming exciting news and photos from our monthly exploits.

Amber came up with a wonderful idea, which is to offer a demonstration project each month. I was apprehensive at first because I was afraid to commit to coming up with something each time, but she encouraged me by saying she would handle it. Of course I got excited with her and have several ideas brewing. I'm sure that we will have more than enough projects and keeping them simple will allow us to do so without a tremendous amount of stress.

I am hopeful that our monthly meetings will not only be fun and inspirational for those who attend, but that we will be able to publish a lot of the information and creativity on the blog in such a way that we can be a resource on the web as well. My concern is my ability to keep up with it. Time will tell.

So...we're back...and I hope that it will be all that it was and then some.