Today I’m working on sewing the quilt back for this scrappy nine patch quilt top: A larger photo of the quilt top can be seen here. I’m using a thrifted white cotton sheet for the back but it wasn’t quite long enough so I added a row of blocks made from the leftovers fabrics from the front. When I was…
Dave was in the Canadian Army for 25 years before he retired in August of 2000 to take a job on Maui and thus ended our Army adventure and began our living in the USA adventure. Those 25 years were good years, but I won’t lie and say they were easy years. Dave did two NATO tours, one peacemaking (to…
For the past week and a half, I’ve had to move my sewing machine back to the dining room table while my husband worked on refinishing and modifying a vintage sewing machine cabinet that I picked up at a local thrift store a few years ago. It is solid wood with a cherry veneer and was a bargain at $30.…