Back in May of last year, I picked up this bag of scraps at a quilt shop north of London, On. As you can see, I opened the package before I thought to take a picture of it. But it wasn’t the pretty red and white floral fabric that had caught my eye. It was the rest of the fabrics…
Last year, one of the items on our son’s Christmas wish list was a set of throw pillows to match the striped comforter we bought for him to use at college. We chose other things from his list to give him but I kept the pillows in mind for a future gift. Earlier this fall, I was lucky enough to…
Way back in the spring when I was looking for a cabinet to house the Singer 15-91 that I purchased on e-bay, we came across this cabinet. At first, we thought it was another 15-91 but upon checking the serial number, we discovered it was instead, a 201-2. The cabinet wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but we decided…
This year, each of our children received three handmade gifts. Our oldest daughter lives and teaches in Shanghai, China. Even before we knew that we’d be in Southern Ontario over the Christmas season, we knew that she would be flying here with her partner to spend Christmas with her partner’s family. That meant that her gifts needed to be ones…