First, I had lots of help and encouragement from my family and friends. I got the idea for writing the book by observing that so many kids in my world were suffering from anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. Many of these kids had no friends. I just couldn´t imagine having no friends to share my thoughts and dreams with and to talk with about problems. I wrote Sewing a Friendship in hopes that kids and parents who read it will realize the importance of inviting people who seem to be "different" into their lives. The result could be to form fun and lasting friendships.

The plot for "Sewing a Friendship" centers around five girls. Nina, who is happy with her life, loves music. Sokron Blossom finds pleasure in being neat and tidy and loves reading fashion magazines. Meeka loves mind games – the more numbers, the better. Jonsy Jipsy loves to sing and belly dance and all the girls love to share their passions with each other and have fun planning and scheming for their next adventure.

The fifth girl, Kiki Shaver, is a sad little girl who has no friends and hates her life. She lives with an aunt and uncle in a tiny house and she thinks she can´t do anything right and that she´s a big disappointment to everyone. Kiki enters into the friendship circle of the other four friends very reluctantly. She doesn´t want to be hurt and she doesn´t really know what a friendship is supposed to feel like.

Nina, Sokron, Jonsy and Meeka invite Kiki into their group because they want to enter a fashion contest – and they need a fifth person for their team. Preparing for the show brings all of the girls closer together and Kiki proves to be an inspiration and an asset for the team. When grandma and her dog, Dogon become involved with the creations for the fashion show, the fun begins.

"Sewing a Friendship" isn´t only about developing friendships, it´s also about listening to the wisdom of our elders and appreciating, and cherishing the fact that we have this wisdom to draw upon when we need it most. It´s a story about seeing the differences in others as attractive  rather than a detriment to forming friendships. If more kids would learn to think that way, we´d have far less bullies in our schools and less children who feel alone, rejected and unloved.

I attempted to make the illustrations in the book colorful and whimsical and I hope that it makes every reader smile when he or she sees them. Each illustration is different, just like the characters and their surroundings in the book. I wanted them to show that despite differences, lasting friendships can be formed and we really can all get along.

First, believe in your message. It’s an important part of the process of writing. Do you have a message to write about that you believe will help your readers in any ways or bring joy and fun, and laugh?

Next, how interesting is your story going to be? It’s always a good idea to have a problem in your story that would be solved at the end.  This way people could learn and use your message in their lives.

Then, choose the right one. If you have a lot of different ideas to choose from, pick the one that the most creative, the most helpful for readers and stay with it. Don’t jump between your ideas; focus on the chosen one, and thinking about your message to be delivered in a right way, in a right time, to the right people.

Last but not least, good luck! Have fun!

Why do you think a book always has to have a title? Because without it the reader would not be about to get an idea of the book, what it’s about and wouldn’t buy it.

Even though Sewing a Friendship is a good title, I think, but for some people it sounds confusing. Maybe because they don’t have enough time to read the second part of Sewing a Friendship as well as the first word and they think that all about sewing. That’s true, it is about sewing but the girls who sew a long-lasting friendship with their enemy by having courage to include her.

I choose a Sewing a Friendship as my book, because I found similarity in a way to put different and separate pieces of cloth together to make a nice, warm, beautiful quilt as well as when people with many different talents, abilities, characters, point in lives became friends by creating long-lasting, wonderful, powerful friendships.

If you are a grown woman, what are some of the memories that come to mind if you are asked to share the experiences you had when you were seven or eight years old?  Maybe you have only wonderful thoughts of giggling with friends, playing soccer or softball for your community league, and enjoying the wonderful teachers that stood in front of your classroom every morning. Unfortunately, it is more likely that some unpleasant scenes may come to the surface as well.  Perhaps you were the one girl in class who was teased because you didn’t wear the right clothes or live in the right neighborhood.  It could be that you were painfully shy and had difficulty making friends. Maybe you never pursued the activities that really interested you because someone told you that only boys should be engaged in such pastimes.  The reality is that girls can have a difficult time in our society, and we need to find ways to offset the negative influences with positive ones.

It is normal for girls to form cliques and small bands of friends as they explore how to build relationships and determine where their personality fits into a group dynamic.  However, these normal social developments also take place in situations that can become filled with gossip and power struggles.  Experts have written numerous studies explaining why girls specifically tend to engage in this passive-aggressive behavior.  A prevalent theory is that girls are supposed to be “nice” and “accommodating” and therefore not allowed to express their anger or disappointment in straightforward ways.  So, the secret whispers and the sideways glances become the next best alternative for girls to vent their emotions.

Research also has shown that the ages of seven and eight, particularly for girls, mark a significant change in how friendship is viewed. Young girls just want to play with the person who is most convenient, so geography is a key factor.  Around the third grade, however, girls start to place social importance on who they call their “best friend,” while boys usually avoid placing that “feminine” title on any one person in their circle.  In other words, girls start to notice how their friends are viewed by peers and may avoid becoming too close to another girl who is not widely embraced by classmates.  It is a sad fact that many girls face pressure to decide their close friendships not on shared interests or common experiences, but what is deemed acceptable by others.