Sewing Saturday

I spend a lot of time taking photos and thinking what I will write on the blog - yet each time I actually have time to 'blog' I feel I've neglected the blog!!

As I logged on I was surprised to see that my last entry was April 11 - oh my goodness.

So, today I plan to sew - I will be doing Part 5 of Plenty of Fish Mystery AND finishing my sister's place mat AND finishing another place mat AND starting a baby face washer collection. Who knows when I'll have time to blog about today :)

So here is what I've been doing since April 11!!!

 Part 4 -Plenty of Fish Mystery

I did buy a new sewing machine :). I have a Husqvarna Rose machine that sews beautifully and I do most of my patchwork and quilting on the Hasqvarna. However, when I wanted to start downloading embroidery patterns, the Husqvarna would no longer allow me to! 

I spent months talking to sewing machine specialists and corresponding with Husqvarna to solve the problem without success. The only suggestion from Husqvarna was to purchase their new updated hardware and software - which "should" work. 

WELL!!!! After spending many thousands on the original machine, be it 9 years ago, I was not prepared to spent a further $1800 on something that "should" work.

SO .... I purchased a new Janome Memory Craft - for the same price.

I followed tutorials from YouTube and it is very easy to use. I love it.

So, this is machine number 4.

 

 I downloaded a collection of Fairies from BFC-Creations

 My first embroidery on the new machine.

KATHY'S QUILT UPDATE

I've finished the top except for one border. Next step will be putting it together.

Think I will piece a section of the back also.

 Putting the section together. I decided to design irregular blocks that would all fit together, therefore creating an illusion of randomness (is there such a word?).

 Waiting for the border.

My next project is a 'cow' quilt for Cooper LOL. 

Cooper was really taken with these cut outs and asked if it was for her.

Back to sewing now

Happy Sewing 

Allison

End of holiday sewing..

I do enjoy staying at one place for a week or so. It gives us time to set up and sort and time for me to sew.

I finished sewing all the blocks for Plenty of Fish mystery and trimming all the dog ears.

 All the blocks laid out ready to trim

After trimming - it took forever. Wish I had remembered to bring my rotating cutting board.

The Easy Street Mystery quilt looks great in the van - I still have to finish the quilting (and unpick the little bit of quilting I did at home - really not happy with it)

 It also goes well with the curtains I made using the pattern for the Christmas Possums placemat. 

I used left-over fabric from the quilt to make the baubles.

Happy Sewing
Allison