Grant me this: I work fast . Meet the newest member of the family: my 1920 Singer 66 "red eye" treadle sewing machine! 

Dear Hearts and Gentle Lurkers, I have a new obsession: treadle sewing machines.  I just checked this machine out this morning.  It is ONE ...

Friends, it is good to be home.  Oh, not Manhattan (though that's nice too) -- I mean here with you at Male Pattern Boldness! Let...

It's Friday at long last, kids!  First things first:  WHO won the McCall's wiggle dress pattern?  The winner of the pattern is......

Good morning, all! As you can probably guess after Wednesday's pre-dawn post, I spent most of yesterday in bed trying to catch up on ...

Friends, once again I must apologize for my pre-dawn stream of consciousness.  Don't ask me why I am awake at this ungodly hour, but I ...

  Friends, one of the joys of blogging is that no matter what kind of disasters befall you, you can always turn it into material for your ...

  Readers, can I be real for a moment?  Sometimes I wonder what people think of the stuff that goes on here.  Those poor innocents who stu...

It's Saturday at long last, the end of a long, hot week.  You wake up to the image above and a sense of dread sweeps over you.  But th...

It has happened again . Readers d'un certain age , remember how you used to think life would be a clean linear progression -- 9th gr...

  Readers, what a day I had yesterday!  First laundry, which involved washing the approximately 40 dirty dog diapers we use weekly instead...

  Welcome back to the show, Ladies and Gentlemen! Do you like this gray wool suit jacket?  I hope not.  Because in my quest to create a ...

Let's face it: anybody who blogs about a sewing project while the project is underway is asking for trouble. I liken it to a person ...

Readers, have you ever experienced something akin to an out-of-body experience, where you heard your voice saying something entirely inde...

Have you ever noticed how some women, no matter how old they get, always seem to project "girl" more than "woman?"   An...