Its gadget Friday

I got so excited when I saw this gadget. I found it at an embroidery shop! It is a lighted seam ripper. I have had it a couple of weeks and unfortunately have used it reverse sewing many times ( yes I make mistakes ). I will call the shop and get the brand as a helpful someone in my house three the packaging away. Really looking forward to some great sewing tomorrow as my daughter is working and my hubby and son are going to a gun show. Yea me time! Will post pics of what I get accomplished.



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My featherweight has a name!!

Hello
I have decided on a name for my featherweight...LIZA...
She sews like a dream!! I got my 1/4 in foot for her yesterday in the mail-talk about a great mail day. I sewed with her for a while last night. My family commented she was so quiet. It was so much fun it was hard to go to work today. I am attaching a picture of my first quilt block Liza and I sewed together!
Posting about a new gadget I bought tomorrow so stay tuned...

My new sewing machine

I am so excited!! Went to Jefferson tx for the weekend to relax with my hubby. Went to a lot of antique stores. Walked out of one with my first singer 221 featherweight machine. I can't wait to sew with it. It runs well needs a touch of cleaning and oiling.


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I am back to quilting!

Hi all
sorry I have not been on here in about six weeks. Life got in the way of my quilting. After 8 weeks off work for surgery I had to go back to my job!
Good news is I am somewhat caught up with work and spent a lot of time sewing this weekend. I only have 2 more applique blocks to finish all the blocks for this civil war quilt my daughter picked out in 2004~! Talk about a UFO!!
I will probably put the top together at retreat in October. Will post a picutre when it is finished. I was pretty impressed to get all these blocks sewn over about 3 days!

Tote bag is finished

I am so excited that I decided to tackle another UFO in my stash!!
I finished the tote bag tonight, after 2 trips to Joannes to buy cording and buttons that could be covered. Covering the buttons was much easier than I thought it would be. The hardest part of this whole bag was turning the handles right side out. If anyone knows an easy way to turn tubes of fabric please let me know! I think the finished product is just beautiful! The lining is fabric covered with vinyl. I had never utilized this kind of product before but it was easy to machine stitch through.
Cant wait to carry this one shopping at quilt shop tomorrow.
Have a great weekend and sew away!

Making of a tote bag

My friend Julie gave me this kit years ago (you don't want to know how long honestly).
I would definitely categorize this as another UFO! I have never made a tote bag before but thought why not when I pulled this out yesterday.
So far I have one of the outside panels completed. I have not used decorative stitching with my sewing machine much before but I loved using it on this project.
It was fun to look at all the stitches I did not realize I had and play with them.
I am thinking a crazy quilt is in my future somewhere.
My sweet hubby is going to take me to the quilt shop later today since I still can not drive after my surgery. More time to sew sew sew.
Have a great saturday!

I love Circleeze

I do a lot of applique and absolutely do not like to applique circles because for me they end up square. I used Circleeze on this block and the berries look much better and round! I may actually get this quilt pieced together prior to the end of the year. I think the rest of tonight I am going to work on my grandma's flower garden and try to get one more block done. Next weekend I am taking an intermediate hand quilting class. I have not taken a quilting class in a few years and I am very excited about it and hope to learn some new tips.