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My grandmother and her sewing machine
My grandmother from my mother side had a big white sewing machine that she loved, year after year, vacation after vacation we travel all the way from Maturin to Maracaibo that’s almost from one end of the country to the other it always took us two days on our car, we traveled to our hometown to visit our all our family, we always stayed at our grandparents house and i remember that every time I got to their house there she was sewing in her room with a big smile. My grandmother loved to sew nothing made her more happy, sewing was her job, her hobby and her passion one which she was very good at, she use to made all kinds of dresses for all kind of occasions each one of them beautiful and unique like if they came from a big boutique or made by one of the greatest designers on earth, but what she was best at and what she loved doing the most were wedding dresses, that was her specialty and the also the reason because most of the time she had so much work, lots of women came to her for help with their dresses because they knew that my grandmother would make them the most beautiful and memorable dress, in other words the dress of their dreams. I remember how she always was so focus and dedicated to her work nothing or nobody could distract her, and especially no one can touch her work, I remember times when my sister or cousins started playing with her machine and moving stuff from her table that she was working on thatuse to made her very angry, she protect her work so much because she wanted every piece she made to be perfect and unique that’s one of the reason because she was the best and because I respect and love her so much. Now that I think back my grandmother had a lovely hobby that made her and the people she made the dresses for happy, for that I thinking for the first time that stop sewing had to be the most difficult thing that she had ever do, but as she says her new hobby is taking care of her grandchildren and that no hobby is more important than that, that’s why we all love our grandma so much, just how she love us.
