February, 2007: Dear friends, after a long time away, I’m returning to my weblog. We’ve dusted it off and changed a color or two. But, I am afraid we’ve misplaced some of our links and pictures. Surely, they are here somewhere.  Please bear with us while we find them and piece them back together.

June, 2005:  I am sitting here quietly stitching while the madness of children and grandchildren rages around me. It is lovely to watch the excitement, but I am grateful for the quietness that comes from my sewing. It helps me maintain an inner calm.

May, 2005:  I’ve been having mouse trouble. Not the kitchen cupboard kind but the computer kind. I finally got tired of its balky temperament and unscrewed the back. The insides looked just like the feed dogs on my sewing machine, packed with lint. I thought, “I can do this” and got out my sewing machine tools. With my mini brush and needle-nosed tweezers, I pulled out the trash and dusted it out. Now my mouse is behaving itself beautifully.

The moral of the story: if you can run a sewing machine, you can do anything. 

My granddaughter, Else, asked me if I knew about the Chaos Theory.

It says (for you technical people) that any seemingly disordered system actually has an underlying order in its apparently random data.

Or (for us ordinary people), if it looks like chaos, you just haven’t figured out its pattern yet. Sounds right to me!

May, 2005 – A lovely Danish lady found lengths of exquisite Hardanger lace in an antique shop in Denmark and gave them to me.  She felt they should be made into “something” for a church, and I was the person to do it. I am working it into a cross banner.  The job has proven to be far more difficult than I ever imagined.  Sewing new fabric onto antique lace is like putting new wine into old wine skins.  It’s taken me months. I feel like I have been sewing on it forever and ever. Amen.