It’s Furious Balancing

The Husband and I have returned from over the river and through the woods (i.e., The Other Side of the State, a Republican-invested, latte-less wasteland) with a trunkload and backseat-load of my Gramma’s old knitting and sewing paraphernalia.

Gramma died about 15 years ago, and most of her crafty things have been untouched. The Husband found a bobbin still in the Singer FashionMate 360 sewing machine.¹

Sorting through all of it is going to be a serious project. Do not fear; I will post photos. There is more yarn than I imagined, but most of it is acrylic intended for baby items. I know I saw a few women’s magazines from 1948. The Husband found fabric scissors, two spool-boxes of sewing thread, and countless buttons,² zippers, snaps, etc.

We haven’t unloaded the car yet. I need to vacuum the Cat Room³ and put it all in there. I’ll invite HunterXan over this weekend to start crawling through it. What we don’t use ourselves can be donated or eBay-ed.

The rest of the weekend will involve knitting, turkey casserole, and the BBC production of Pride & Prejudice. Mr. Darcy is just so hawt…

1. Circa 1975. Solid metal. It has two stitches — straight and zigzag. [↩]
2. Some cut off from my Grampa’s old shirts, I’m certain [↩]
3. Our cats have their own bedroom. We have a 3-bedroom house for the two of us. One extra bedroom is my study and the other is the Cat Room. It has their cat tree, play tunnel, a litter box, u.s.w. [↩]

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