New Baby! (QR!)

Three new posts from me in 24 hours, wow! But things have been happening and I thought I’d share them with you.

I have a “NEW BABY”!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, not a “new baby” in the little human form.

And NOT a “new baby” in the furkid form.

And NOT a “new baby” in the automobile form.

But, yes, a NEW BABY! Well, an OLD new baby, new to me baby, have barely played with it and put it through it’s paces yet baby…………………….

Oh, what kind of baby? A SINGER FEATHERWEIGHT!!!! Year of this baby’s birth………1941. Year of adoption into my house, well, now, 2008 of course!

Isn’t she gorgeous! (note to self, take a better picture without the shadows! LOL)

Now I didn’t plan on adopting anything for the studio right now as I have a major item coming soon (more about that another time). BUT, a few weeks ago I had an offer made to me that was too good to pass up. Yet pass it up, I did, for what seemed like logical reasons that day. And I let a few friends know about it’s availability and pricing, but only one was interested and the timing wasn’t quite right for her. And I kept hearing this little thing calling my name, giving me all the “logical” reasons I should adopt it.

Yesterday I gave up, called my friend and questioned her to make sure she wasn’t planning to purchase it before I told her that I would be then. And then I called the person selling it and made the arrangements. Today I brought her and all her accessories home (yes, it’s got to be feminine, look at all the accessories she has!):

The book says that this one is a binder attachment!!!!!!!! WOW! I didn’t know back then there was such a thing!

And look at this foot!?!?!? Isn’t it just interesting?

She runs beautifully, she’s quieter than I expected, and best of all, I can pick her up with just ONE HAND!

Sometimes opportunity knocks and you just have to answer the door!

And on a final note, yes I have changed my blog look again.  I missed my big header picture.  And then I had to fix the color code for the announcement about vending and I DID IT!!!! All by myself (well, okay with a little help from my two basic html books….sigh…..I doubt it ever becomes second nature!)  LOL

Progress on two fronts!

Ummm, I thought I posted this last week. I use the “private” setting until I get my post done, then uncheck private and publish it. Apparently I forgot to uncheck private, so this is last week’s post reposted. Keep in mind as you read this I wrote it a week ago! And Rene, this is why you couldn’t see the hand-dyes we were talking about!

Well, we’re making progress on two fronts here, both the hand-dyes and the entry! The entry is as far as it can go for now. The roofing materials are on order and should be here before Mike returns from his next run. I am amazed at this porch and it’s so SOLID! It really shows that he loves to build things in the attention to detail he takes!

Oops, I forgot to pick up the shovels and tools! I’m having difficulty with my lighting decisions. I have a sensor light that triggers whenever anyone is near that corner of the house, but I’d like low lighting to illuminate the steps. And I’m thinking solar instead of running wiring. I’ve almost decided but am waffling between two choices!

I love the black metal work, it’s just perfect for me. How he got these pieces all cut to fit right I’ll never know, but he did and they look great!

On the other front, I have been trying for ages to come up with a rich brown hand-dye. And I’ve finally succeeded. This is a mid-range of the values in the last batch. Isn’t it just yummy!!

I’m thinking I’m going to keep the deepest darkest piece to work with here. I do love rich browns!

Have a great weekend!!!!

A little bit of quilting and some other stuff I’ve been working on

Currently I’m working on a shop sample for the local quilt shop. I am really enjoying being back to quilting:

I also started playing with pantograph’s this week. I haven’t done many pantograph’s, but now that my machine has the new edgerider wheels on it, I’m finding they aren’t as difficult as they used to be. First up, a customer quilt, one of her earliest ones, the pantograph is called Popcorn:

And I loaded a quilt I made years ago, when I was still driving semi-truck. Put a pantograph on this one as well, one of my favorites, Feather Meandering:

This week also had delivery of my “Quilt Cut II” that I purchased from a friend.

Since I got it Monday evening, I’ve been able to cut out 18 Double Monkey Wrench setting triangles, and piece them (no picture); and ALSO to cut out 16 Maple leaf blocks using my hand-dyes for the maple leafs.

And for those who knit, I’ve been working on this sweater for years now. I’m hoping to finish it to wear this fall. I enjoy knitting, but need a complicated pattern to keep my mind alert with it. This pattern needs attention to each stitch, of each repeat, of each row! I LOVE IT!

Overall and detail shots:

And these pictures are why I’m about 1,000 e-mails behind on my lists, and over 200 blog posts behind on my reader! Time to go spend some quality time bonding with my laptop and catching up!