Hola blog reader!

I’m Cate and this is my journal of sorts for my trials and tribulations in sewing, parenting escapades and random life musings.

In what often seems like a former life, I practiced law with a large firm for over ten years. The truth is, I can be one of the dorky types who actually enjoys having her head stuck in a contract, shaping words and clauses just so, negotiating their meaning, drafting, re-drafting, defining terms. Yeah, I know, fun stuff. But in late 2011 I decided to put lawyering aside for a while so I could focus my pursuits on the homefront — being a wife and raising two beautiful babes that make me smile and laugh more often than they make me completely crazed and exhausted.

I wish I could say I’ve had a lifelong love of sewing. With me it was more a case of the old saying … if at first you don’t succeed [at liking something], try, try again.  Although I did endure (barely!) sewing during Home Economics class in eighth grade, and my mom enrolled me in a sewing class somewhere around that time as well, neither experience fanned the flame for sewing. Not even close. Instead I found my love for sewing in the summer of 2011. In a fateful tale of internet wanderings, I stumbled upon a sewing blog one day while looking for, of all things, a macaroni and cheese recipe for my son’s upcoming birthday party. The blog and the sewist’s creations were so lovely and inspirational, I was completely drawn in. And then suddenly, I found myself — the then non-sewer — avidly following a handful of sewing blogs. When I finally couldn’t stand being on the outside of this magical world of sewing, I took a one-day “learn to sew” class from a local instructor, and I’ve been sewing and loving it ever since.

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I’m always asking myself, what do I want to be when I grow up?  Which, you might argue, is kind of a bad thing since at this age I’m definitely what most people would consider an adult. Right now, I want to sew and sew and sew.

It has taken me a long time to accept that I can’t always get things right, and I shouldn’t wait around until I do; and more importantly, I shouldn’t beat myself up for it. The name “from whole cloth” is both a reference to my fabric-filled adventures behind the sewing machine, and a nod to finally recognizing that I am really just making it up as I go. Heck, aren’t we all?

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