{"id":12826,"date":"2014-10-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/?p=12826"},"modified":"2014-12-22T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T21:54:25","slug":"wow-cant-believe-made-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/so-sew-easy.com\/wow-cant-believe-made-short-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, I can’t believe I made the short-list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Honestly, you all inspired me just as much as the site has inspired others to try their hand at some easy sewing.<\/p>\n

I can't believe how its grown in the last 2 years from my own online diary as I started to learn to sew. \u00a0Now it's a place where we all share our experience through Readers Questions<\/a>, {and now the new chat room and forum<\/a> started in Dec 2014}, and I have a whole page of sewing tutorials<\/a> linking to articles I've written and videos I've made as I've learned all these new sewing skills along the way. \u00a0Not to mention all the patterns I've loved designing too.<\/p>\n

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We even\u00a0teamed together to fund a loan for\u00a0a lady in Tajikistan<\/a>\u00a0so she could buy a new sewing machine and set up in business to support her family. Within a couple of hours of my posting about it, the So Sew Easy readers had funded her loan! I hope our interest in sewing helped to improve her life.<\/p>\n

Many also took part in a charity sewing project, sewing tote bags for those newly diagnosed with\u00a0cancer.\u00a0MJ of MJ\u2019s Lost Cause wrote about the\u00a0story of her diagnosis and the hand-made bag\u00a0she received from the hospital with her information, a journal and a few simple gifts to make life a little easier. Again the So Sew Easy readers rose to the challenge and\u00a0supported her efforts<\/a>\u00a0and in the end she received more than 550 bags!<\/p>\n

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In fact, So Sew Easy will be 2 years old on 28th November. \u00a0We've come a long way together in that time. \u00a0I know I couldn't have done it without you all, encouraging me, correcting me, giving me your advice and suggestions along the way and showing me the better way to do things. \u00a0My sewing has come along in leaps and bounds as a result, and I know its inspired others to pick up a needle or borrow a machine and give it a try too.<\/p>\n

Just take a look below at some of what you've all helped me achieve in the last 2 years.
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