So as you will perhaps recall, last October I made my son a Halloween costume and put my sewing machine away.

In February, when my MIL came to visit, she wanted to enact some repairs on some of our quilts, so my husband got the sewing machine out, and…

…half of the base of the sewing machine had disappeared. The extension table/storage box part, you know? That fits around the needle plate/bobbin holder? It was gone. Inexplicably gone.

My sewing machine is only ever in one of two places: inside i...