Knit Scraps...

to underpants. What to do with all those knit scraps?!? Why, make underpants! Loral let me borrow her Jalie pattern for underwear...I am so hooked. Don't the boxers sew up cute? I made up about 5 pair for Jedi. Baby received some too...I just eliminated the crotch piece of the boys pattern. Now, I am just in NEED of a Coverpro 1000CP so I can put a professional touch on all the new underpants I'm going to sew!

I spent about 3 hours hiding out in my sewing room today. God help me if I have to answer the same question for the 100th time today. My poor mil is having some memory issues and has been staying with us the last 5 weeks and will be here until we can get her in to see a specialist. If you're of the praying kind please pray that my heart will remain compassionate and I'll have the fortitude to do my duty. OK...pity party done. I have tons of great designs swimming around in my noggin that I'm itching to sew up. I'm hoping to get some summer sets done for the kids this weekend. Blessings to you all.

brrrrr...

We've been pretty much homebound because of the bad weather this last week. It is bitterly cold here in Northern Michingan and the kids were getting a bit stir crazy. So, I let them brave the 15 degree weather for a bit...

D9 and Sparky... The kids conquer our snowplow mound...

Baby is Princess of the Hill...

When Daddy is in charge...

I know I've been a total blogger slacker but I do have a good excuse...my mil has been staying with us and will be here until March 9th. I promise to be up and blogging again then. I'm coming up on my 100th post and that means another drawing!

A Priceless Gift

Nancy, my mil, handed me this unassuming box and said, "I thought you might like this." Before I opened it I thought it might be an old movie projector or something. Imagine my delighted surprise when I saw this...

and this...

Holy Smokes! It's a 1934 Singer 221 featherweight!

look at the "egyptian scrollwork" pattern!

I eagerly plugged it it and held my breath as I flipped the switch...a whiff of ozone and voila it was humming away in no time. What a sweet little machine. It was owned by Nancy's mil, Violet Isabella Reid Milne. She must have bought it when she was pregnant with Ken's father in 1938. I wasn't fortunate enough to have known her as she passed away just before Ken and I began to date but she's sounded like an amazing woman. She came from a farming family of 13 children. I believe she was the oldest. She worked and put herself through college in the 20's, went on many adventures like flying in a biplane, attended a party in Detroit that was busted up during an opiate raid...that is where she met her husband! Had children at the unheard of age (at the time) of 37 and lived a fruitful full life till she passed at the age of 94 in 1994. Look at her delightful fingerwaves!