Zen and Sewing?

From this desire to cloth diaper my daughter has come another ambition. I am going to sew her some cloth diapers myself. Now, I have very little sewing experience. I did well in my eighth grade home-ec class, but that was more years ago than I care to admit. For an early childhood class last winter I made sock monkeys for my kids, but it was hard. I used my mother-in-laws sewing machine and did most of it by hand, which was very tedious work. However, they turned out OK, and my 6-year-old still tells me what a good job I did. I can see that some of the seams are already coming apart, and many other faults in the workmanship, but they don't care. It's still something that I made for them.
I recently acquired my own sewing machine, a Kenmore that my mom had when I was young, and she passed it on to her sister. Neither one used it much, I believe, and my aunt gave it to me. It must be from the 1970's, but it works. I found a diaper pattern on ebay and thought, "Oh, I can sew my own!" and I bought it. Now that it has arrived I have found that it's a little complicated. I'm not sure what all these terms are, or how to do much with my machine except sew a relatively straight line. But I am determined to learn. Last night I sat down and cut up some old burp cloths I never used and made three cloth wipes for Grace. It was pretty easy, I just measured and cut, then sewed around the edges. It's only a square after all. But they look really nice, and I think that once I get the hang of this thing, I can sew some diapers. I am really excited about it, all the cute, soft materials, and the fact that I am creating something and can do whatever I want is really appealing to me. And there is this sort of Zen feeling that comes with sewing. My mind was cleared of everything else, all the stresses and exhaustion I've been feeling lately, and I felt calm and at peace for a few minutes while the machine was humming. I'm going to become addicted, but it's a good addiction. Better than some other ones I have anyway. I will never be able to sew anything too complex, I'm sure, but I will have a good time sewing some wipes, cloth pads for me and maybe some cute diapers for Grace. I will put up some pictures if I ever get them done.