I am a SEWING MACHINE!

I posted recently about the produce bags I was making (and still have the supplies to make lots more!) and the baby clothes.

Well, I just finished a third sewing project and my friend is on her way over to pick it up. She is Jewish and her husband is Catholic and they had some of each tradition at their wedding. Their high school friends had made quilt squares that one of them sewed to make their chuppah. The intent was to turn it into a quilt to have in their home. When I was making the bags, my friend found out that I sew and mentioned it. She had been quoted a few hundred dollars to finish the chuppah into a quilt. I told her that I could easily do it, but it would probably be simple. No fancy quilting for me! She had all the fill and backing, so I just had to sew. They gave me money to have my sewing machine cleaned and the timing adjusted. Last weekend she wrote me a check and that was the push I needed to actually sew it.

The best part of these sewing projects is that I inherited my grandmother's sewing desk with all the notions (thread, buttons, zippers, etc.) in it! I can just sit down and find thread to match what I am going to work on. This is what the drawer looked like:
But then I thought my grandmother probably kept it looking more like this (all that color grouping and boxes were hers):
And I straightened it up.