Tag: fabric

  • The Enabler

    My husband readily enables my obsessions with books, fabric and sewing machines. Last year I declared, “I have too many sewing machines. We need more space.”  I rehomed several machines and had space until my son Mert said, “I know this thrift shop with fabric.” Walking in I saw the cutest 1970s machine. It glowed…

  • a time to gather, a time to distribute

    The rotary cutter I needed hid somewhere in the pile of quilting fabric. A box overflowing with cloth that could not fit into the overstuffed fabric closet blocked my path. I shoved aside quilt blocks to find the sewing machine. The time had long since come for me to re-organize and reduce my stash of…