What a Dream

I don't have a sewing room ... I wish I did. What a fun place to have ... where NO ONE CAN TOUCH YOUR STUFF. One day, I will have one. So, I am living vicariously through my friend. I have to show you a picture. Everytime she looks at this, she thinks about how much she has to do. When I see the this room, I think of how much I could create if it all belonged to me!

I always feel like I am in a private quilt shop! I love it.

And one day, when I am all grown up, I shall have one a lot like this one!

The Tools We Use to Create

I love my machine. It is nearly as old as I am, but it saw me through the horrors of high school, the craziness of college, the loneliness of living on my own, and the downside of divorce.

And like me ... it is still kicking.

Someone said to me ... why don't you just go and buy a better machine? I will, someday, but this machine can sew tulle as well as it can sew upholestery fabric. It can make a quilt or a pair of pants, and it never whines, complains, or worse yet, beeps at me. And it goes FAST.

Someone else teased me, saying that it looked like the machines on the Mrs. Sew and Sew fabric. I don't care. This machine got knocked over by a two year old and survived! The worst thing that happened is the curlicue feeder on the above picture got bent. But I picked it up and started sewing right after the incident!

I love my machine. I think I will name her Serenity. (Because I also love alliteration!)

Too Pretty to Unwrap

See this pretty package? Isn't it gorgeous?

This is my Christmas gift to Noelle because every time we went into our favorite fabric store, she would go straight for the sea turtles.

Yes ... I said sea turtles.

What does a seven-year old born in land-locked Ohio, growning up in Southeast Michigan, know about sea turtles? I have no earthly idea. But she is so excited about this fabric. So excited that ...

She still hasn't opened it.

Oh well, someday, I suppose!

Hoot Hoot!

I hate Halloween.

Literally, I do. I think it is a stupid holiday. It isn’t even a holiday. It is a stupid excuse for kids to run around like fools, get free candy, and get sick off it.

So when I went into my favorite quilt store to look at the clearance, all of the gorgeous colors were in Halloween collections.

Ick.

Andrea, my quilting psychologist, encouraged me to think outside the box. “Instead of looking at the entire collection and thinking Halloween, just look at individual items within the collections and select one or two fabrics you like.”

Hmm.

Why are the simplest solutions the ones we can’t seem to fathom?

Look at my fun collection of fabrics!

Now that I am part of a quilt guild, they are challenging the members to try different kinds of squares. In 6 months, we are supposed to have a full quilt. Well, I just can’t wait that long! So I am starting at least two, and making squares until I am sick of it!

Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

We will see what happens!