A Day To Rebuild Both Within & The Sewing Room

Needed a recharge and some new grounded energy. To achieve that I went here took deep breaths and just listened to the beautiful waves. 

When I got back home I decided to just get a feel  ( jumping the gun the room is not ready yet). Lets try a few setups to see how the new sewing area will feel. 

Wow yes I am loving the feel and flow and look at all the room for the long arm to fit too. You can not see the huge work bench cutting table and the space on the other side.  We will be able to fit 5 people comfy happy in here for sure. SMILES!

Room is not ready but who can resist lets get a sewing friend and test the feel while sewing. 

WOW ITS VERY PRODUCTIVE AND FLOWS NICELY

Side By Side 

I work on a new shirt for My Mom (She loved the other one so much) 

Barb works on some really cool dolls ( they will be soon up for sale too ) 

This set is very productive and its not even set up at all yet...... Our projects are getting done and we are flowing and enjoying the greatness of a day and evening sewing together hanging out. We even had a pizza party with a couple yarn crafting friends in the great new room.

THE FIRST COMPLETED GREAT FUN PROJECTS FROM THE NEW SPACE TEST DAY.

Barbs cool dolls they just need to be stuffed. 

 My 2nd cat shirt for my mom since she loved the first so much. 

Monster Snap Hoop Making A Great New Sweatshirt.

New Shirt For My Cat Loving Mom!

The Snap Monster Hoop is great and I did not use any basting stitch and I just went for it. It was fast and right on to hoop too. 

Happy Mom With Her New Shirt

Making Up For A Broken Mom Heart & Becoming A Better Sewer

Ok I will keep this short but it will be cool and touching story.  We digress way back to when I was around 4 or 5. My mom try to get my a doll to play with. I wanted a screw drive to fix things or a hammer to play with. This broke her heart truly busted her up.   She loved dolls and I was a little girl and should of loved dolls too. All I wanted was dirt bikes and she did not like those. 

Well here you see me almost 35-40 years later. Yes My first Doll. 

Yes I am in my 40's 

Every blog I read and every long time sewer started out as a kid playing with dolls and making doll clothes. So I though I would turn back time and go back to the basics and try and learn from making some 18" doll cloths

She still needs a name? I want something Bad-ass. She is in her Urban threads shirt I messed up however I learned and that is what its about. 

She is now wearing her spider shirt  this worked with new needle however I need to test some different stabilizer.  Still no name... hmmmm.....?????

I was using the wrong needle for the stretch of the material and it gotten eaten up. 

 MY MOM IN HER 80'S WANTED A DOLL TOO! 

I ran out got her one. Soon to make some new clothes for her as I learn. 

 My mom is the most excited about me having a doll. I am going to guess I will have to bring my doll and her and hers together and we can all have a tea party. She would love that.

Great New Shirt & Review of The Snap Hoop Monster

Ok here is the wild power on power off machine working machine not working Back to power and working great review of the Snap Hoop monster. 

The magnet frame is very strong and would most likely hold however I decided to add a basting stitch just in case. 

I got This far on My great cool new Tee shirt and seems the hoop is working well. Opps the high winds kicked the power out about 8:00 PM and you would think that was the end. Not just yet. 

Yippie Power is back on!!! It is Now 2:00 AM in the morning. and I am awake now and trying to save my shirt in the making. No issues with the machine finding the hoop or staying in the same place after configuration. Yes Its working great. 

My Awesome Cool New Artistic shirt ready to wear now. 

This is my great shirt and me at 6:00 ready to go off to work now.

Fun Pillow Just Because Pillows Are Addicting To Make

I could not sleep after waking up at 3:30 am yet again. I had energy to think and work a bit this day. I decided to get a move on and make a fun pillow that will go in the living room. This is a step by step of it in the making. This will go nicely when I quilt up the red and black quilt top I made awhile back.

Step 1. Go through the stash find something fun to use.

Step 2. I made the pillow form from some great fabric perfect for this.

Step 3.  I made the pillow envelope style Finished!

Long Arm Fun and Frustration

Still a good time sewing away even with the frustrations of a day where the stars are not aligned for it.

This took forever with every silly excuse under the sun to get this quilt quilted.  Well here it is on the Long arm and what insanity of this and that all going wrong over and over. It is not finished as now I am having new issue of thread breakage. I will win this battle and this quilt will get finished.  Its nice that my Pup Angel is by my side too. 

ANGEL 

sleeps by me everywhere.

Me Quilting Away 

through the issues & problems.

Yes I cut my hair again and yes it is Pink too. 

New Bathmat Playing With Serger

My Bathroom Got New Walls So Needed A New Bathmat

So I grabbed up a few towels to match my color ideas and Cut them up into the square sizes I wanted.

Using the serger I pieced them together using inside seems and adding solid piece for back of the mat

Not 110% happy and I will be making another one. however for now I am pleased enough to show it off and enjoy using it. 

My Nice New Scarf That Got Sadly Eaten Up

The winter months are coming and I thought this would be a great thing to make up and than sadness strikes.

1.I am very excited as I see my new in the making scarf come to light and look so good. 

2. As this was going along I was sitting beside it working on the Binding for my jungle quilt. When I heard the sound not a good smooth embroidering along sound. 

3. What a mess and what sadness as I was so excited how good this was turning out. This knocked the wind out of sail for the evening so I called it for the night and decided sleep and than after my work day clean up all the mess and start over again. 

The Jungle Quilt Is Now All Appliqued & Quilted

My First Self Designed Baby Quilt

Just Needs the Binding Done Now.

I have really had a lot of fun with the quilt.  My friend Barb came over and had a night of stitching and happy bitching sewing friend fun. This is what I conjured up that evening.   I just grabbed up a small jelly roll sitting on a shelf and a new pattern was born.

The New Jungle Baby Quilt Coming

I really need to get moving a long it seems I am just all UFO's / WIP's lately...  Well Here is the newest one to share with you all. I hope to have this finished for a donation run really soon. 

As I started to sew this group of fabric together I was so not sure how I would like it. I was thinking no way this is going to be a muddy mess. 

However as it came all together I started feeling a jungle theme and baby quilt in the making. 

So off to the store I went yesterday and I grabbed up some giraffe print fabric. I also took this picture and got it enlarged to about 24 by 28 I think and will make this into an applique for the middle. 

I am thinking this is going to be just fun. 

Talk About Some Happy Fun! I Got A Quilt From Shane!

Shane is one of my hero awesome quilters I look up too. 

I really i am so very excited I do not have a lot of words however I do have a picture of my happiness and the quilt. 

Please go see and visit Shane over here http://recycledquilt.blogspot.com/ 

Everything Shane does is so inspiring and lots of fun to make you happy. 

Not Much In Productivity. Lots Of Learning Longarm Backing

Truly not a real productive time with the longarm however it was a wonderfully educational time.  Many different things went on and I will bullet and share some education with you all. My hope is this all will help some of you avoid some of the frustration I had.  

This was my first time with using 108” backing fabric and not knowing of the learning curve I was dealing with.  Load unload load unload I was so very sure that it was square all these times. Frustration 4 letter words flying away.  Ok need to walk away.. What a great place to end up walking away to feel better. 

I went to the Quilt Farm ( http://www.quiltfarm.net/aboutus.htm ) Great magical NICE  place right close to my place. Where along my drive I get to stop and enjoy beautiful places such as this water fall and there is many more beautiful places along the way too.

Where upon arrival I did have an advanced heads up that the Canada crew was enjoying the fall retreat week together there. The leader of that gang Chris Foster who now has a blog I highly encourage you to go visit her and see her many way above me gifted talented well educated greatness she blesses us all with in the quilting world.( www.holycowchris.blogspot.com )  

So now that you have all that great information that I am sure you all will visit the sites and let me know when you are taking a trip up to the farm and we all can go for lunch or something while you visit.  Here are some bullet points.

1>    Backing that is 108” is best when Tore off the bolt rather than cut. This keeps it much straighter.

2>    Ironing all this stuff is insanely hard when your iron breaks and does not get hot enough. Perhaps a new iron is in order.

3>    My idea of racking 2 quilt tops with different thread color requirement’s is way out there and I just tossed that idea out. ( as well as the way both tops fit would not be the way I was quilting the one… a few inches too little.  ) ERRRRRR

4>    The best things to do is walk away breath and go play with another project and come back refreshed and just do it again. WOW THE BACKING IS LOADED CORRECTLY. SMILES

Sleepless 3:30 AM Before Work Sewing & Embroidery

Long little story to a small fast project I made.

Yesterday at work it was a really rough day. I am so not myself and I am really out of balance feeling not very grounded. I am  just trying to get through each day with nothing twisting my  day to something irrationally out of control for no reason.  Well lets see I lost my water bottle and I had been in about 5 or 6 different offices no way was I doing the back track so I left it for gone. The issue was I forgot money ( I seem to forget lots in the recovery process ) and could not get another  water. This is small tiny thing in the day that was half over of me. Minus I am not myself and this sucked and really almost through me over the edge.  Went to check something back in a place I already did a job and how great a COOL GREAT CO WORKERS had my water bottle and I was saved and felt so much better....  SMILES..  

So I made this little Fob water bottle holder and added my name so I won't get separated again from my water bottle at work. 

Not Sleeping much at all. and 3:30 AM does not make me the must with it detailed person. So I had this hoodie from work and I some UT designs ready to go so here we go. 

I am not impressed with how this turned out I did somethings different stabilizing ana I am  just not happy with results and it landed very off center sideways off a bit kinda fits how I feel..... hahahaha

Finally The Design Room Is Starting To Take Form.

Please bare with me and enjoy The sewing / quilting that is my only safe place for now. I ask that you all just enjoy and bar with me as the posts will be coming and be very often and have lots of fun stuff to offer. However they may seem out of order and not in any 1 direction. My surgery has me in full blown wild insane surgical menopause. My thoughts and attention is way out of wack. My sleeping is so strange there are times a rotary cutters becomes way to much of a danger to use.  Also I am emotionally just an irrationally non understandably stranger to my own self.  OK ENOUGH OF THAT BABBLE>>>>>

   

Its been a long time coming looking back at the old posts when I began the new sewing room I left the design stuff in the original room and this will make a lot of extra room for some great art working quilt things to come down the line. 

Here is the start as I found My 5' x 4' Table Ironing Board

My Cutting area Works largely on the ironing table however its all organized for the detailed stuff over here. 

The soon up and coming serger area that will have some quilting on the one going on and some silly fun clothing reconstructions on the other one. 

As you all can see still need the cleaning part to take place however that takes massive amounts of will power and just do it energy that is not happening right now......  I am excited that bit by bit its coming a long and working out almost better than I thought as I feel the flow of it now.....  The sewing room is ion the other room only a few feet away. this set up should be working out wonderfully. I think its harder to figure out how to be so creative with the lack of space when we all seem to have 100 lbs of stash and tools jammed into an area that fits maybe 10 lbs of all that...... SMILES

Lets Just Play & Embroider Some New Things

Ok I spent sometime just playing around and learning some new hooping techniques. With the said I will share a few finished projects with some small details and if you want to know more just comment and I will get back with you.

This is a baseball cap 

I did this using just a regular 120 x 120 hoop  double tearaway stabilizer. 

Here Is  Some Sweatshirts I did Up For Gifts. 

I really think I could be getting addicted to these. I need a lot of explanation to figure out to hoop this up and and than it turns out very easy. 

 This was for my Friend & Neighbor who has been awesome amazing. 

(hidden requested meaning for fun)  

 This was a very special shirt made for a beautiful loving person although I rushed to get it done right before our dinner date. I was 13 mins late. Shirt was a great hit and made up for the wait time. I will do better next time and start a day ahead a least.

 This is a great beauty made for the Lovely Sherry.  She was beyond happy with finding it with a not by the toaster. 

So there you have some of the new addiction shirts that i have been working away on. They are a big hit as the gifts I have been giving away. I will be making more here and there. If you see something I might be able to make one up for you.... The prices are a bit high though so keep this is mind.  I don't sell most of the things I make these shirts I might be talked into. 

Just a silly bonus pic of an old shirt I played with.

This one is an extra just to bling out something for myself. (hence not ironed )

 Its my shirt. hahaha

Here Is A Small Teaser

To assure you that there is Truthfully more and much more to come here is some teaser sneak peak pics.

This is on the Topaz right now with lots more to come. 

Lots of Embroidery is happening on the Ruby  Having lots of fun and some videos on this coming too. 

See the Crane on the back of my vest I did? 

This is the center idea of even another quilt that I am working on at the same time!

Long Time to Away. Lets Get Back To Sewing & Quilting

I have been away for a bit of time. Had some Medical issues come up and needed to get them taken care of with some surgery. Recovery sucked I couldn't really sew or do much of anything!  All is good now and I really need to stop being so self absorbed with that part of the last couple months and move forward.

Enough about that now lets talk about the good start as I get my self grounded and back to the real medicine of life  Sewing and QUILTING!  While I had over a month off from the world I did mange to sew slowly 1 strip or 2 a day and came up with this.  ( I love This and I am looking forward to finishing it up soon.) 

This will be for me!!!! Yes For Me! My Recovery Quilt. 

On another Note 

CHICKEN NEWS AND MORE>>>> My lovely chickens Zelda, Hildigar, and Jenny all have a great home with a wonderful Amish family.   ( Surgery recovery rules where I could only lift 5 lbs or less for over a months time so I could not care for them to my standers ) 

Hang tight and bare with me I am giving my self the winter to fully recover into the physical bad ass I was before the surgery and I will be getting new chickens. 

Videos will be coming up too Lots of great new ideas coming really soon!!!!