It’s been about a month since our return from the substitute house, and I finally dusted off my sewing machine and got things set up so I could sew a little. Yay! I was inspired to finally try some machine applique by this month’s Quiltmaker, which has an ad for fabric that shows some cute Christmas placemats with machine applique. I’ve always avoided machine applique, thinking that I didn’t have a good enough machine or good enough machine sewing skills, but I finally decided to give it a try, and here’s the result. Not half bad! More crackpotty activities to follow…