N ~ Nine Patch

     I was six years old when I received my first sewing machine. It was an old fashioned Singer treadle machine.
    I immediately wanted to learn how to sew. 
    Mom gave me fabric scraps and I started sewing with no real plan of making anything. The joy of seeing those rows of stitches run across fabric was enough.
    It didn't take long for me to get the treadling part of sewing figured out, and once Mom realized that she created a 2"x 2"  square cardboard pattern, gave me access to her good stash of fabric scraps, and got me started on making nine patch quilt blocks. 
    I spent hours and hours happily cutting out squares and then sewing them together to make the blocks.
    Those blocks eventually got turned into a quilt that we still use today.