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Chapter One entitled What Would You Do? This is my grandmother's sewing machine.  It is in really bad shape. The drawers are missing under that quilt, The bottom is pretty rusted, and the wood on the top is in really bad shape. JWS wanted it out of his garage, so here it sits. I am thinking of tearing it apart. Making a new table out of the base. A little cabinet out of the remaining drawers. and a lamp out of the sewing machine for my sewing room. Would that be wrong? to tear it apart that is? Chapter Two  entitled How NOT To Start Your Morning. This part has no pics. Really, you can be thankful for that. Let me start by saying, I love my mornings. ALONE. I have a routine. The only part of my day that I have a routine. One of the only times I have alone. I get up. I make coffee, throw a couple logs on the fire, drink coffee, watch a bit of the news. knit or crochet or sew. and then I leave the house and meet a friend and go for a walk. at 5:15.  That gives me almost an...

or How many sewing machines have I owned...and wore out?   First there was my mother's machine.  I gave it quite a work out and it is still my favorite to date.  An old brown Singer that was quite the workhorse, sewing through blue jeans and wedding gowns with ease.  Next came the JC Penney machine that my Mom and Dad bought for me for graduation, nice machine, lots of fancy stitches, great buttonholer , would not sew through a pair of jeans though. That machine wore out somewhere in the late 80's.  It finally was not going to sew any more play clothes, Easter dresses, or Halloween costumes.  Then came another Singer, not a very expensive one, times were a little tougher and a basic machine was all I could afford.  That one finally gave up a few years ago and dear hubby bought a nice Brother machine for me.  Lots of fancy digital stitches, a really easy buttonholer and of course, it would not sew through denim. And then the killer, m...