Originally Posted by hobbykat1955
We were out in NY hse for 7 days and vacation hse in RI for 5 days...decided to stay in RI since we are on the lake and could use that water to flush...no water (well). I now know how Laura Ingals felt...bringing buckets of water up from the creek. Cooking over a camp fire etc...reading by candlelight. And NO SEWING...thought I could start cutting for Dresden plate quilt or use my "GO"...but didn't have an iron since my scraps were full of wrinkles...How did they survive!!!!!
Too bad you didn't have an old flat iron. You could have heated it over the fire. LOL Treadle sewing machine, anyone?