It's Mine! All Mine!!

Can you believe it! I placed my order yesterday. I am really looking forward to getting to know my new machine! Just look at the size of that large embroidery hoop! Man o' man am I going to love sewing out quilt block sized designs in that. Of course here's the next project my daughter has lined up for me. You might recall that I embroidered a bunch of shirts for her Scion car club....well the new thing that she wants me to embroidery on is her car dashboard cover! Now I'm looking at mine too and trying to figure out what to stitch on it. Wouldn't it be awesome to have more than one so you could do different things. One idea is to spell out something like maybe a holiday greeting or something reversed so that you could only read it from the car in front. I guess it would have to be fairly large sized lettering but we've done that before.
Anyway, now I really have get my @#$ together and get my sewing room straightened up for the new arrival! Of course wouldn't I just love to have one of the fancy sewing cabinets we saw at Quilt Market! Actually the wood was so beautiful it would blend right in with my living room furniture. I'll just take over half of the living room and of course still keep my sewing room, I don't think Herbie would mind too much! Ha! Just kidding, dear. >wink<
Don't forget that Bernina Super Saturday and purchases over $4,000 can be financed for 48 months interest free. What a deal. I'll be working in the store this Saturday so come see me if you have questions about anything Bernina!
Have a great day tomorrow!!

Words of Wisdom

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HOUSTON, WE HAD A PROBLEM

Well, thanks to the thunderstorm that hit as we were boarding yesterday to come back from quilt market we had a slight problem! But it just meant a delay until the thunder and lightening had passed. Then when we landed in Phoenix the flight attendant welcomed us to St Lake City! Those crews from SouthWest - they love to kid around but I think she was just distracted before she started making her announcements and totally forgot where we were landing!

But we're back from everything new and wonderful at quilt market 2009. And as we saw it was the 30th anniversary for Fall Quilt Market. Got in kind of late last night but today is back to work day. Could use just a little R&R. I can't believe I haven't been on the computer since last Friday morning. But, it is good to be home! Suzanne has posted lots of photos she took so check those out if you haven't yet. I'll update later. Have I said it's good to be home?

Up, Up and Away!

And we're leaving on a jet plane but I know when we'll return. I'm taking my little netbook with me so I can share notes from show. I'm hoping that we'll have some great embroidery news to share with all of you when we return. So have fun sewing and embroiderying while we're gone. Remember Oct 17th - Bernina big Sale!

I Want My Mug For My 830 Collection

See the perfect mug on Ebay. Can you tell I'm getting ready to love my Bernina 830? Click on mug if you want to order your own mug. Click here to order your own Bernina 830.

You see I've got a set of bobbins, a foot and the bobbin case mirror for the 830. I'm starting to collect the little things for my own Bernina 830. It's like I told Suzanne, I'm building my 830 like Johnny Cash built his Cadillac!

Met with Lyn the quilter today! She liked my quilt, but she's probably not met too many quilts she didn't like. Anyway, she now is in possession of my project I've slaved over for the last several months and has promised to work her magic on creating a magnificient quilted project for me with her "signature swirl". I think she's a budding digitizer and I'll be working with her to create some terrific embroidery quilting designs for us, so watch for future news along that line. She is one talented gal. Like I tell my students in BSR classes - if you like to doodle then free motion quilting is just an extension of that. What better way to spread your doodling than to immortalize it in machine embroidery! What a deal, she wins, we win. I'm liking this.

Meeting With The Quilter

Yippy! I'm meeting with Lyn today to have her work her magic on my quilt. This is the one that I will be offering a software class or just as an embroidery project in 2010.

Here's a free download from Birdbrain for a Halloween design to digitize.

Another View Of The Halloween Quilt

This version sewn by Deb Yadon. She skipped piecing or embroidery on the border and just sewed fabric strips for the border and binding was stripe cut on the border. Another way to get it done.

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Did you download your October block from Bunnyhill yet? It's really cute. Mom and I were talking about how cute this block was makes us curious as to the next two blocks also. Guess we'll have to wait and see, won't we!!

Have my latest quilt ready to take to a quilter. This quilt will be a class in 2010 - both for software class and for anyone just wanting to do an embroidery project. My goal was to make a lapsize quilt but it got out of control and finished at about 82 inches. That's some lap, huh!

There's just 4 more days before we leave for Houston and all that awaits us there at Quilt Market.