Oh yeah, I need to mention my most far-flung sewing project/

My ex-wife is a newspaper editor. A few years back, when we were
married, she sent a reporter and a photographer to Iraq. They were
embedded with the Marines.

One day she brought me a bolt of black cotton twill and asked me to
make a black-out cloth out of it. When I was done it was a 12' by 12'
square, two layers thick, completely opaque. It weighed a ton. They
used it to cover the battle of Fallujah.

Mark