I'm still here, although taking a nice long break from sewing--I still
enjoy reading the list, though!
I've been away from my computer a lot lately (I also recently moved, from a
180 yr old house in Vermont to a 1 yr old apartment in TX; quite the
change) so the threads of the list have sort of
I vote for fiction. It seems wrong on so many levels. You don’t “cut a hole" in
a (new!) stocking to darn. You cut a thread and let it ravel a little. In that
day, I suspect making ANY kind of hole would never have happened. You wouldn’t
destroy new goods for any reason, much less to make busy
There is a reference I've been trying to track down. This is one of those
"I heard it somewhere" stories. I asked a couple of groups on facebook
with no results, but maybe it will be familiar to someone here. It was
possibly from a novel, but I don't know if it's from the era or 20thC
historical
