Congrats, Akila! I have seen machines that can do embroidery, but not cross stitch. How do you manage to do so many things, what with work & all?! Hats off to you!

Ages ago, at another time, in another world (that’s how it seems now!), athai’s used to come to have their babies to K Nagar. That was a great time of excitement for me. Old used dhoties were cut & the orams adichufied to make small bed spreads for the tiny new born. We had a pedal Usha sewing machine. The pregnant athai was not allowed to pedal. So the hand wheel was used. I used to consider it an honour to be allowed to rotate the wheel while athai did the orams! And if & when I was allowed to do the stitching myself, well, that was the ultimate honour!
Duty & Rights:
Nowadays, we seem to be doing our routine everyday chores (even to our closest family members) more as a duty than out of love.
Hare Ram
Gayathri