A horrible sewing project gone wrong

Earlier this month Extension Educator Phyllis Lewis’ asked what your first sewing project was.

That question brought to my mind my first and really my last sewing project. I took a home economics course in school that included nine weeks of sewing, nine weeks I’d like to forget.

My mother was a wonderful embroider, embroidering pillow cases and dish towels and table runners. My grandmother crochet...