Ahhh the Sewing Machine...

...a girls best friend! I think of that little ditty often, especially when I get a new aquisition. :-) This little beauty came home with me last week. It's a Pfaff 130, made in Germany and has the mongramming dials etc. I'm sure it was considered very 'high tech' in its day. It weighs a ton, and sews beautifully. ;-) Isn't it lovely??? :-)

Wool!

Doesn't this look like a whole lotta fun?!!! :-)

While at the quilt show, my Mom and I watched a felted wool applique demonstration. The demonstrator gave hints on threads, how to attach your appliques, etc. She had some really cute patterns in her vendor shop and was also selling pieces of wool. They were beautiful, but a little pricey for our budgets, ~~so we went to the local thrift shop! We seached the racks for 100% wool items in colors we liked. Took our purchases home and ripped them apart-- after the kids got into them and modeled for us! LOL ;-) We felted them and viola`~~our own felted wool for appliquing! And this is the photo after my mom took some of the wool! ;-) I have a few cute tabletopper patterns, and won one in my basket too. I can't wait to get started, but I'm thinking I should wait until the weather is a little cooler to have wool on my lap. :-)

Happy stitching!

I'm baa-aa-ack! :-)

We had a wonderful little vacation! We visited our familes, met my new grandson :-)), attended a quilt show.... I need to take a few photo's and come back and show you my newest sewing machine! It's a beauty of a little machine, but really heavy!

In the meantime, I'll leave you with this photo.... it is a large basket filled with Christmas goodies! I won it at the quilt show! :-)) They had 4 baskets to represent the 4 season's of the year. When you purchased your ticket, you got a chance at one of the baskets. You couldn't buy more chances. I put my chance in the winter themed basket. They drew the names on the last day of the show and my Mom and I happened to be there. I was so surprised to hear my name! I let out a whoop! :-) Just look at all these goodies! ~doilies, placemats, patterns, a tabletopper, a bag, a bowl~ oh my! :-) I shared the winnings with my Mom and DD... who were both wishing to win too. ;-)

Have a happy weekend!

Updating...

...kinda like house-cleaning, it needs to be done every so often. :-) Ok, honestly, I do clean my house a lot more often than I update my blog. LOL! :-) I added a few blogs I like to visit. I'll be adding a few more soon. I haven't been sewing lately, so no good photo's to post. I'll be taking a bit of break as we are taking a short vacation. I'll even get to attend a small quilt show on my vacation~~ can it get any better than that?? :-)

Happy stitchin'!

Oh, I did it! ~~again! :-)

I told myself I wasn't going to start any new swaps with my quilting frineds at HGTV quilting boards. I told my family, I told my friends. Well, you know, I did have good intentions! :-) Then Evelyn posted a photo of a quilt she was working on and I commented on how it reminded me of a swap we did a few years ago. Well, one thing led to another and yup, I'm hosting a new swap! :-))) We are going to swap floral 9-patch blocks. They are so fresh and springy looking! Then, a good number of us are going to cut them up and make disappearing 9-patch quilts. Now doesn't that sound like fun? And aren't they pretty?! :-) I think I'll make a tablecloth out of my blocks.... ;-)

Happy stitching!

**I have no idea why some of the type is larger. It isn't like that when I'm writing the post. ~??~

I'm on a roll...

I've been quilting! :-) I think I might've worn something out in one of my machines. It started making a racket, so I had to switch machines to finish the quilting on this little quilt. It's 44 x 50 inches~ any bigger than that and I don't think I would've attempted machine quilting it myself... just too much to wrestle with! I put squiggles, loops and sunshine's on it. Tonight I'll work on the binding. Whew! It feels great to start checking things off of the list! ;-)

Happy stitching!

Makin' Mini's...

More mini 9-patch blocks for Bingo~Bonnie's next round of swapping. :-) These are the orange and red sets. I just finished trimming them up. Does it look like 120+ blocks? The + is because I always make a few extra for me. :-) Now to get them bagged and mailed!

Happy stitching!