Thanks everyone for the warm welcome back but what a big discovery I made this morning.  I mention that we are putting down new floors and in order to do that all the closets have to be cleaned out.  I have 4 to clean by Dec 7 when they start the wood floors.  In the back of the hall closet I found a black carrying case.  I knew it was a sewing maching that had belonged to my m-i-l but I don't think I every looked inside the case.  Imagine my surprise when I opened the case and lifted out this little jewel.  It's a Singer Portable Electric Sewing Machine 221-1 (a featherweight).  It appears to be in very good shape.  There are several attachments in the case but I don't know if they are all there.  I do have the instruction manual.

Another find.  This was in an old trunk in my bedroom.  The quilt belonged to my husband's step-grandmother.  She was a seamstress but I don't know if she made the quilt.  It is machine pieced and machine quilted.  The front and back are both pieced out of the same fabrics.  They don't feel like 100% cotton fabric but have a slick feel.  It looks old but some of the fabric reminds me of feedsack fabric.  It is fragile. Wonder what else I am going to find?

Here is the latest addition to the family, my daughter's new kitten.  Evidently someone had abandonded it at a co-worker's house.  Annie (as in Little Orphan Annie) is about 2 months old and had been on her own for some time.  She was all bones, had missing fur, and a cold.  She is starting to fill out and is into everything.  Isn't she beautiful.