“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)
Merry Christmas! I hope you all are enjoying the gift and presence of family and friends, wrapped up in each other, as we are.   I thank all of you for reading and commenting on my ramblings and I look forward to future posts on this blog. There will be no new posts until Dec. 27.
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In this electronic age of e-mail, beepers and cell phones, very few hand-addressed envelopes make their way to the red-flagged mailbox at the end of the driveway. An electronic message simply cannot generate the warm feelings awarded by an old fashioned handwritten letter.
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Even though this is a sewing blog, I cannot write about something this close to my heart without including a lot of personal information. In various posts, in order to explain the project or the situation, I have and will continue to mention a group of women who have played an integral part of my life since 1977. We are not, as one new acquaintance assumed, a group who attends plays together.
PGM’s host a baby shower for my daughter-in-law Shelly, the young one in the center back with the long hair
We are a group of women who first gathered one morning in 1977 so that our children could play together. Continue reading
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What have you sewn for Halloween?
Sewing grandmothers–and mothers–are usually busy at their machines in the weeks before this increasingly popular holiday. Until we had grandchildren, I was never one of them.
Both of my children have October  birthdays and every  year they each had a minimum of two parties. There was one for friends, one for family and some years, one for school classmates. By the time I was done with smocked birthday outfits, dozens of cupcakes, buckets of buttercream frosting, home made age appropriate party favors and accompanying hoopla, I had no creative energy left for Halloween. My children had to rummage around in their closets to come up with their own pathetic costumes.
That was then. But now I am a card carrying member of the Sisterhood of  October Costume Creators. Continue reading
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For those rare moments when our sewing machines are not in use, it’s nice to protect them from dust with attractive covers. Before I made this one for my mother’s birthday, she used a bath towel to protect her beloved Ellageo from Florida’s relentless sunshine. This looks so much nicer and does a better job of keeping off the dust and rays.
I could have made up the pattern myself. But why spend a lot of time drafting and fussing over getting the fit over the embroidery unit just right. Phooey! I have grandchildren to sew for and haven’t got a minute to waste.
At Monica’s Miscellany, a site which seems to have been “under construction” now for several months, I discovered a great bargain. For a very reasonable price you can purchase the basic cover pattern for most Brother, Babylock and Viking Designer embroidery machines and get a set of designs specifically for the project.  Sounded good to me!
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Tagged sewing machine cover, ult cover
I’ll be sharing sewing projects with you from quilting, machine embroidery, to babies and childrens clothing within the month.
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