I promise this is about sewing, hang with me.
This video is one recorded when our then state Senator Debbie Stabenow came for a “ribbon cutting” for our solar install. We got a tax credit (the IRS gave us our tax money back) for $8500 and we got another $2K from our local electric utility to offset the $26K it cost to install.
I run everything in the daytime off of my panels. I send power to the grid. I import power from the grid at night or on deeply cloudy days. The snow mostly slides off the panels in the winter.
Sewing is a sustainable act. But so is powering your sewing machine and iron with solar! If I sew during the daytime (any time between when the sun comes over the horizon to when it dips behind the trees on the other side), I am using my solar panels first to power my house.
This is a truly horrible screen grab, but it’s not my video! The dress, however, is the Christine Jonson Take Along dress in a mod rayon/lycra print and I love this one in the summer. It fits great and looks fabulous.