My great-grandmother (my mother's mother's mother) was a marvelous seamstress, the sort of person who could look at a dress in the store and then go home and make it. I think of her when I check if a fabric pattern matches at the seams. Today I'm making zipper pouches as Chanukah gifts for the three niblings, and I'm using her ironing board that I somehow inherited. She'd be so proud :)