Hi Marsha, sorry to hear about your husband health problems, hope he improves with leaps and bounds. Yes, I did do a lot of sewing this Xmas. Just finished a bunch of baby sewing for a friend's newest grandchild from her son. Now I find out her daughter is almost certainly pregnant as well, due November so will have to work on a few things for her as well. I may make a teddy out of plush felt for this little person, doubt if I have the skills to sew a fur bear although can get fur cheap at used clothing stores, they are usually ripped and stuff so they go cheap. I might try it. But I have so many plans. Just finished altering my dmil's old living room sheers to fit her kitchen windows. Thank God and science for FrayChek! I made some hanging towels for her from square hot pads and terry kitchen towels. They turned out well, but I had to handsew most them as my machine balked at the bulk of double quilted and terry seams. I also used my new best friend, called Peel n Stick Fabic Fuse, it comes in stips on a roll or in squares. It is permanent and cannot sewed through but it works great for some seams etc. I plan to make some more hanging towels, these ones use the shape of your iron's bottom plate as a pattern for the cloth hanging part. Then of course, I have a rack full of clothes I am changing in some way or other. Like I want to make a long skirt from two pairs of co-ordinating pants. I will open the inside leg seams and use the second pair to make insert triangles to make the skirt. A very sixties idea, but it will be unique! Yes I would like you as a friend.