Hitting the Blocks

I have now joined the same club as Scarlett O’Hara and Maria von Trapp and made some lovely outfits from curtains.
Well, just one curtain to be exact. My mother was auditioning this beautiful brown fabric with the embroidered vines for her new bedroom, and I decided it was just too pretty to leave [...]

I first learned how to sew in grade school. I wanted so badly to make pretty things, but my mother’s sewing machine hated me. It was an old, refurbished second-hand White, and I could not get the thing to perform for me. Of course it behaved just fine for Mom–she’d [...]