Category Archives: Letters to Mom

My Mom died 4 September 2010. She was my best friend and these are to help me cope.

LtM – 13 February 2011

By jEN | Published: February 13, 2011

Happy Birthday, Mom. I don’t write to you as much as I did, but trust me, it’s not that I think of you less. The painful memories are fading a bit, but there is so much I would love to share with you. I miss talking to you and our unique combination of totally silly [...]

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LtM – 25 January 2011

By jEN | Published: January 25, 2011

Hi Mom. I’m going through some of your fabric to make another head tie thing while I’ve got the sewing machine out. Opening boxes of your material gives me a dose of the familiar smell of your house. It makes me smile. love, j [about Letters to Mom/LtM]

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LtM – 24 January 2011

By jEN | Published: January 24, 2011

Hey Mom- You’d be so proud of me today. I bought a hemming foot for my sewing machine a couple of months ago but today I had the balls to try to use it. It’s tricky! My goal was to make a few of my own bandanas out of some of your fabric (I’m no [...]

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LtM – 27 December 2010

By jEN | Published: December 27, 2010

Hi Mom. You wouldn’t believe what I’m doing right now: I’m removing fusible interfacing from one of your wallhangings. Yeah, I know! Well, I could see you were unhappy with the way the circles turned out, had peeled them off and removed most of the stitching, but there was still a lot of the paper [...]