I’ve been inspired. After interviewing members of MOXIE for the cover story this week, I decided I might try to go back to the crafty side I had when I was younger.

I lost it sometime in high school, but I can make my own things-I think.

I tried this when I was younger, but it didn’t work out too well.

My great grandmother always made big, elaborate quilts for everybody in my family.

And my grandmother (Nanny) has always been really involved with different crafts, like crocheting, sewing, painting and making Christmas ornaments.

So when Nanny babysat me as a kid, I would naturally try to help her out.

I learned a few things (like I wasn’t going to be a child prodigy clothing maker).

I would try to crochet, but I could really only make a straight line. So knitting wasn’t even an option for me.

But I do know how to use a sewing machine, for the most part.

I tried to make my Barbie dolls some clothes, but they always ended up a little crooked. I realized that I don’t like to cut along the lines of patterns (I always was a rebel).

But I always picked out really pretty patterns. So there’s some hope for me!

All I can really make now is a pillow (and even my husband says those aren’t the most comfortable things he’s ever slept on).

And that’s sad.

After all of those years of watching everybody else make blankets and clothes and listening to my grandmother explain how to make a turn with the crochet needle, I feel like I should at least know a little something and make something worth using.

Plus, it’s in my blood.

Maybe it’s a little too late to make this my New Year’s resolution, but since I’ve already broken my original ones I’ll at least go get my sewing machine from my mom’s house.

- Michelle Floyd is Out & About Editor at The Red & Black