Riding It’s A Small World at Walt Disney World. 🙂
Hello! Welcome to By Hilary Jordan, my little corner of the internet where I share my quilting, sewing, and adulting adventures. Plus a bit of life with two little boys, and one wonderful & slightly stubborn husband;).
This blog is a continuation of my blogging journey from my previous blog Young Texan Mama. Originally launched as a mommy blog, Young Texan Mama was a great way to break into blogging and creating. As social media and blogging have changed over the years, so have I, and that’s why By Hilary Jordan was born!
I have enjoyed arts and crafts for as long as I can remember. Art was by far my favorite special elective in school, and my grandmother taught me how to cross stitch and embroider when I was 8. At the school book fair I would always get those project kit books for making key chains or friendship bracelets, and craft projects during Girl Scout meetings were my favorite!
As a freshman in high school, I decided I wanted to learn how to sew so that I could make my Halloween costume. My parents bought me a sewing machine and I used the instruction manual to teach myself; and basically winged it for a few years. The first few garments off that machine were terrible; so many wonky hems & questionable fabric selections.
Throughout high school and college I would make a garment here and there, and I started to dabble in quilting. My sewing machine was one of the few things that came with me to my tiny dorm room at A&M. The first quilt I ever made was a a blue jean quilt for my dad. I had no idea what a rotary cutter was, so I cut the pieces with scissors and a cardboard template.
It wasn’t until I was pregnant with my oldest that I took a more serious interest in quilting, and things snowballed from there! When we moved to Houston in 2013, I joined the Houston Modern Quilt Guild and found my people. I have made some amazing friends, and learned so much that I couldn’t have learned from all the online tutorials I had been watching.
In 2016 I accepted the position of Social Media and Quilt Guild Coordinator at Aurifil Thread. I work with an absolutely amazing team of people in an industry that I enjoy and love! It is absolutely inspiring to get to interact with quilters and artists from all over the world, and I couldn’t picture myself doing anything else.
I hope you enjoy the things that I share here at By Hilary Jordan, I can’t guarantee that it’ll be super consistent, full-time job plus two kiddos means sewing & creating time is a precious commodity, but it will definitely be fun!
