Sewing box

I love stitch craft I also admire everyone who embraces this most wonderful of hobbies.

I taught myself to sew along with the help of my grannies old treadle machine when I was asked to leave the sewing class as Miss Allan thought it best I take more classes in Home Economics even though I loved her class (she thought I was hopeless). Anyway I am a bit of an oldfashioned girl at heart and when I spotted this sewing box in a shop in Crieff it was love at first sight. Just need to decide what goodies to put in it now

I love the glass top that has a wee display of some of the essentials in a sewers life

Clear plastic

Things have been a bit hectic around here for the past 2-3 weeks. Just before that my sewing machine went to Drummonds of Edinburgh to have its first service ( David the shop owner informed me my machine is 10 years old ) As I was busy ma Walby (hubbie) took the machine through and look at what he got me .....a Plexiglass Sewtable. Today is its first outing and it's brilliant.

I never thought I would see the day when a big piece of plastic would give such satisfaction.

Oh and for the record thank you thank you thank you Walby

Off to cut up material and sew it back together again

Mary Jane Gilchrist

As I held her hand my beloved wee grannie passed peacefully from this world on Wednesday.

She was 99yrs young the photo above was taken about 4 years ago.

Born in 1911 the youngest of four children, her mother left her father and the children when my grannie was just 6 weeks old she met her mother only once when she was about 20yrs old. After her mother left she was brought up in various foster homes until she was around 14yrs old when after another failed fostering (she was not a typical child of that time and was seen and heard quite alot) her spinster aunt took her from Liverpool back home with her to Stonehaven and the stable loving relationship that had been missing in her life was established.

She became engaged to a sea captain and one summer came to Alloa to visit friends of the family she was sitting in the bandstand at the local park when my grandad came and asked if she minded if he sat down she said ok and she was smitten when the visit was finished she didn't return to Stonehaven but moved in with my grandad a huge scandle in those days and she didn't marry my grandad until she was 5 months pregnant with my mum and after much pleading from my grandad. They had another 2 children and a loving successful marriage until my grandads death in 1982.

I would like to thank her for

Ringlets in my hair, sticky out party dresses, long flanelette nighties, piggie hot water bottles,treadle sewing machine, teaching me how to knit, cocoa, toast made at the open fire, Hopes the Bakers fruit birthday cakes, my love of Lily of the Valley, Honeysuckle, Cats & Hats.

For her unfailing love kindness and friendship I thank her from the bottom of my heart she was my rock and I will love and miss her always