A couple of nice days, snow and a new/old machine....

The weather has not felt much like spring.  Thursday evening was a teeming downpour.  One of those storms where the two feet from the car to the covered deck had me soaked to the bone.

Friday I worked on some paperwork and then headed to Maryland to pick up Miss Marji.  She was not at her best.  She has been hurting all over as she went to watch her granddaughter Chance play tennis.  She was bundled for the cold temps, but her DIL had them sitting on the ground on a blanket and she got chilled.  Then she ran out of stem trying to walk back to the car and ended up falling, flat on her back, thus the hurting all over.  She is seeing her heart doc on Monday to check on her new implanted pacemaker to make sure it is doing the job.

We drove to Baltimore to visit Vivian Freeman, a wonderful Red Hat Lady and an Origami Owl dealer.  She was having an open house and selling some of the current charms and some retired ones.  The nice thing about her business is that she cares about her clients, not like the last one I experienced.  We had a grand time and got some nice charms for our lockets.

Today I was in Ephrata doing our Pillowcase Saturday.  It will be the last time at that shop, they are moving and will be doing more machine quilting services rather than fabric and classes.  But they are still going to provide the pillowcase kits to sew, so we are going to set up in the church fellowship hall and also look into doing some sewing classes for some of the local youth and older folks as well.  It is an idea that we have been batting around for a while and this will give us a perfect time to change things up.

On our way home, Patty (from church) and I stopped at Dave's Collectibles where I picked up a Singer 401A vintage sewing machine.  I had found it on EBay and saved shipping by picking it up in Lancaster.  It was supposed to be operating, recently serviced and had several attachments.  I got it home and doubt that it had been serviced.  But it was in good shape and did show signs of having a drop of oil here or there.  But I went over the innards myself and greased gears and oiled other moving parts.  It was humming well.  The lone bobbin that was in the machine was plastic and I doubt that they had them back in the 50's.  So I have ordered some bobbins that will work and I will adjust the tension and it will sew some lovely stitches.  I am looking forward to learning some paper piecing techniques on it.

Tomorrow I am becoming a member of the Parkesburg Mennonite Church.  I have been going to Sunday School and Church for the last three years.  They are wonderful people.  And I am blessed to be able to become a part of the church family.