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I am not sewing a Halloween costume for my son. I will be surprised if I ever sew a Halloween costume for him. It is just not something I can imagine wanting to spend time on. I recognize he may some year wish to be something at Halloween for which I can't purchase or easily improvise a costume. But I hope not. It's not because I don't sew -- I have a sewing machine and even use it from time to time. But I use it to make quilts, not clothing. And I can't hand sew anything. Well, I could probably sew on a button if I had to, but I've never properly learned to hand stitch. And, almost of the quiltmaking I do, though, I do with the help of technology.
A few years back I decided I needed to find something to do with my hands. I was spending way too much time with words, concepts, analytical frameworks, and just bits, bits, bits and words, words, words. It was time to find a way to incorporate atoms back into my life.