Long Time - No See!

Okay guys, sorry I've been gone so long!  A lot has been happening, but not too much sewing.  I'm teaching eighth grade and I've decided to head up a home-ec club.  What am I thinking??  Here's hoping I can theach some teenyboppers how to sew some simple projects.  This should definitely be interesting.  :)

Okay peeps, so I've been working on some different projects that I will post later, but here is my next big thing.  I am going to Romania on a mission trip next May.  I'm going to be working with the ladies there who have just received sewing machines.  What would be the cheapest and easiest thing that I can teach them how to make?  Simple blankets?  An easy clothing pattern?  Any ideas??  Would love to hear from you!

It's Alive!

I finally finished my robot quilt!  This quilt has been months in the making and I am proud to say that it is finally complete.  I had lots of sewing machine drama with this one, but I learned a lot! 

So, here are some things that I learned making this quilt.

1. Make sure my bobbin is put in correctly
2. Make sure my needle is in as tight as possible (Use my screwdriver!)
3. Make sure my thread is being threaded through my machine correctly

If your machine is wonky, double check that it isn't something simple.  Usually, my machine is going crazy stitching like a drunken housewife and my needles are breaking in half and I think that I have done something horrible and my poor baby is about to explode and will never be the same again.  Dramatic.  I know.  But I am in no way mechanical and my machine and I are still pretty new in our relationship.  We've made it past the puppy love stage and are now rapidly moving into the-honeymoon-is-over stage.  Would you believe that in the year and a half that I have had my machine, I have been threading it incorrectly?  As shameful as that is, I'm sure it's not going to be the last embarrassing thing I do.  

Here is my wonderful, beautiful baby.  It is a Janome DC2010 that I got from Kelley's Pins and Needles.  The best advice I could ever give is to get a machine from someone who is going to give you lots of support.  Not only can I take quilting classes to help me get more familiar with my machine, but I know that every time I mistreat my machine and it's on the verge of exploding, I can just take it to Kelley's and they will tell me what crazy thing I have done to it now.  Awesome fabric, awesome machines and smiling faces that don't judge me. 

Sew Happy!

Kung-Fu Sewing

I love to sew.  When I walk into a fabric store, I can just feel everything inside me relax.  I just want to run through the store, putting my hands on all the different colors and textures.  I am also a thread junkie.  I love looking at all those colors perfectly wound on little spools, just waiting for my imagination to use them to piece something together out of nothing.  Is this weird?  Most definitely.  As obsessed as I am with fabrics and thread and all things quilting, I am pretty much a newbie at sewing.  In fact, the more I sew, the more I realize I don't know anything!  So, this blog is my journey to be a master quilter.  That's right.  A master.  Like a Kung-Fu ninja master except I will be using a sewing machine instead of nun-chucks.  Who's with me? 

Sew Happy!