I made this light cotton skirt:
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote:
"Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859
I guess I must not be a woman of "high thoughts and accomplishments" because generally when I'm sewing, I'm just trying not to say naughty words when I realize after I've sewn an entire seam that my bobbin ran out of thread halfway along it.