Happy Chanukah

My friend at work gave me 10 yards of Chanukah fabric. It belonged to her mother, who was a Christian minister who was interested in all faiths. I'm not a very good seamstress, and I don't have a sewing machine any more, but I wanted to use some of the fabric. So yesterday I made a pillow case for a little pillow. I realized as I sewed, slowly, slowly, that I am lucky to have lived in the 20th and 21st centuries, since I would have been a failure as a girl in the 19th century. My stitches aren't very tiny and my seams aren't very straight. But I am so proud that the case fits the pillow and that I have a pretty decoration and a memory of a good person.