Cristina has always been very interested in sewing. When she was a kid she would sit at her grandmas house with an embroidery hoop and scrap fabric and practice stitches and stitch pictures of flowers until they came out just right. Her grandma was also the first person to teach her the importance of reusing and recycling. There was never a scrap too oddly shaped or a button that could not be reused somewhere else. Oil stain? Stitch a flower on it. Nothing was beyond saving. She got her first sewing machine in college, and started doing odd projects like an iPad cover for her mom or a tote bag for a friend who got aggravated with fabric glue. Slowly she got better and took on her first big sewing project, a t-shirt quilt. It started when she was helping her college friend go through her clothes one summer while they were moving home from school. The collection of t-shirts her friend had was absolutely enormous, but she refused to get rid of any of them because they all had sentimental value to her. Cristina promised her that if she purged her collection, she would take those shirts and make them into a quilt for her. This was her first big project - a king size quilt - and also her first foray into reuse. Half of those t-shirts would have gone directly into the garbage because a lot of them were too old or cut up to donate anywhere. When she was not working on the quilt, which took the better part of a semester to finish, she was fixing her friends’ clothes or making baby blankets for her boyfriends’ friends who were having babies. INTRODUCTION
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