Went to JoAnns equipped with a coupon shortly after we returned from Washington and I received my sewing machine (thanks Alicia). These are the colors I chose for my quilt and here is block pattern I chose.
The flash made the colors look weird, and no flash made everything blue, so this is the best I could get at the time.
I'm had to re cut and sew some of the pieces, but I'm chocking that up to me finding a block on the internet I liked and laying it out on poster board and then seeing what worked.
I'm thinking of adding a dark purple boarder with light purple squares, but we'll see once all the blocks are finished.
I still have much to do. I think I have about 35 blocks done, and strips for another 30. So, I need 20-30 more blocks. Plus a few for some pillows. I'm trying to make a lovely bed spread for us.
I started my sewing lessons on Sunday. The lady, Linda, very wonderful. Warm and welcoming. I can't say a negative thing about the lady. She knows her stuff. I learned so much about my machine the very first day, and she got me all excited about what I can make and what I can do with everything I just HAD to go to the craft store, then when I came home, I didn't have anywhere to put anything. So I had to clean out the spare room and set up my table and get everything organized.
Of course, after I organized I immediately had to start up. So, I have no pictures of my nice organized table, but here's my table mid work. You can see my new thread holder in the back (clearance!) and my thread in the pencil box (Containers aren't cheap).
One of the neatest things I learned in my lesson (aside from all the funky things my machine does and how to fix tension and such) was sewing paper! Yes, I am VERY excited about this new knowledge and I found clearance cardstock and scrapbook paper and had a little fun until late into the night last night.
You can see on the bottom left of the table are two cards. I took my embroidery setting and some pleasant thread and made a nice design along the sides. Then I took some of my new paper and tried out some other things.
It's so much fun what you can do. I have about embroidery settings on my machine which I thought would be plenty for anyone. After doing this, I can see why someone would opt for the super awesome embroidery machines.
I ended up taking the card of the right over to Linda so she could enjoy it. I left it there for her to have, but I forgot to bring over an envelope for her. Silly me. I'll try and remember for next time.
Seriously, there are some high dollar machines out there and what you can do with them, even on card stock is just amazing.
You can even use a big fat needle and some thick paper or something and make holes in a pattern of some sort to let light shine through. Maybe for a lampshade or window decoration.
Who knew I'd get all these decor ideas when all I wanted to do was sew up a couple crafts and learn to alter my clothes.
I'm really happy with my machine.
It's a great starter, and once the fun of making these cards wears off, I don't think I'll have much use for the embroidery setting. Just the usual stuff.
My next short term project is trying to make one of the husband's shirts that he doesn't like into one that fits me and doesn't look too super weird.
Here's a picture of him in it.
He's looking kinda doofy with that hair he was growing out (which he just cut after it started looking nice, GRR), and those pants are too funny.
I do like the shirt, though, but he doesn't. So I'm going to tray and see if I can make it into something either different, or just fit me without looking completely weird.
If not, oh well, it was in the goodwill pile.
So yes. Hopefully I will be able to keep track of all my progress.
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