Rantings Diversified

I can sew.  Can you?  When I was a kid my mother taught me how to sew.  I can handle a sewing needle like a ninja in the night.  She told me that even boys needed to learn how to sew.  That and I was the only one in the house with eyes good enough to thread a needle.  What would I do, while at college, if a button came off my shirt?, she asked me.  Of course, being a kid, I was thinking…..go buy another one!  She taught me how to sew a patch on a pair of blue jeans, how to darn a sock, how to replace a button (both kinds) and how to repair a tear.
All my sisters have these big noisy electrically powered, push button, self feeding sewing machines and they rip through repairs like a fat kid through a box of doughnuts.
Well, I wield a sewing needle!  Ok, so it’s not the most manly-man kinda’ thing but ya’ know what?  I can fix stuff.  I don’t care if it’s my old used lawn mower, any one of my many clocks, all my friends’ computers or my favorite shirt.  I can fix it.  It’s what I do.  Sewing is one of those zen-like exercises that focuses me and makes me enjoy the process as well as the end result.  It’s like working on a clock.  Every step you take is obviously important to the final result.
Recently Grannymar put up a podcast about her sewing box and it got me thinking about my Moms sewing box that I have in a drawer in my bedroom.  It’s full of the odd buttons and assorted needles, a tailors tape measure, scissors, pinking shears, a scapular of St. Martin de Porres, pins, thread, a half a zipper, hooks and eyelets and all that stuff you would expect to find in a sewing box.  It also contains an odd looking egg shaped chunk of wood.  It took me awhile but it finally dawned on me that it is a darning egg.  One of the most useful little gizmos ever invented.  I have no doubt that you just throw away a pair of socks that develop a hole in them.  Well guess what?  So do I or I should say so did I.
Today after reading Grannymars latest post I decided to break out that old darning egg and see if I still had it in me.  Haha!  I am currently wearing a really warm and comfy pair of recently repaired wool socks.