Emily A. Echevarria

Making and Motherhood

Sewing and creating was a cornerstone of my childhood cemented solidly in place by my mother. Her whirring sewing machine and the crinkle of thin paper patterns provided a frequent backdrop to my formative years as she put her skilled craftsmanship to work on special occasion dresses and any costumes my sister or I needed. For every school play or when Halloween was looming, she drove us to Hancock Fabrics where we’d page through the oversized bound pattern books to search for inspiration, pick a pattern, and then onto the densely packed fabric rolls to find the most reasonably priced version of the fabric of choice.