Sewing

 Speaking of skills. A skill I haven't used in a while is sewing. (Never crocheting or knitting) I have sewed all my life.  I have used my mother's sewing basket which is by now 100 years old. I still have a packet of needles from 1957, made in Japan after the U.S. resumed trade with Japan in 1954 in an effort to help rebuilt Japan after WW 11. My mother gave me her Singer sewing machine for a wedding present.  I used to sew all my clothes. I sewed clothes for three little boys. I sewed drapes for a parsonage. Even a whole couch! Bolsters, bedspreads. Hems to shorten. Pants to mend. Yesterday I mended some slacks. My fingers can remember old skills. And now in the closet are. . .