Post Weekend

Tada!  Done.  Well, pretty close to done.  The kids and I took a side trip across town this afternoon and came home with this baby.

Yup.  A commercial straight stitch machine.  A Sundia LS2-150C.  Found it on Craigslist.  Now I can repair drops and build heavy duty stuff without praying my machine will make it.  I had to ask my brother in law to come help me take it out of the van.  I can't even lift the machine!  It's sitting in the garage 'cause I have no idea where it's gonna go.

Isn't she pretty?  The woman I bought her from threw in 30 cones of thread, an office chair, a garbage sack full of fabric and a bunch of hangers.

Needless to say, this took a chunk of time out of my cleaning time.  I got everything done though.  Emptied my scrap basket, got everything sorted and cut. 

Of course its full again, I put in all the fabric she gave me.  Most of it is quilting weight cotton, but there's some that I have no idea on and will have to do burn tests.

But look!  The table - its clean!!!

And here, my little sewing table is still missing.  It won't be back for a couple weeks.

Yeah!!! Now a week of sewing!  What shall I work on?

Weekend Plans

My goal for the weekend is to clean up my sewing space.  Let me show you...

It is a mess. I am a horribly messy sewer.

I shove things out of the way when I'm working on a project and forget to clean them up.
I stack stuff, thinking I'll go through it later.

Blech.
You can click on the pictures to open them, they have notes explaining some of this mess.
My plans for the weekend are to make this pretty.  My sewing area is a corner of our living space, so everyone can see all my mess, all the time.

My thinking is if I post "before" pictures and tell everyone that this is what I'm doing, I'll feel obligated to do it and show "after" pictures.

Monday I'll post pictures.  Hopefully they're of a clean, uncluttered space.

Wish me luck.

Works in Progress

It's Friday!  Yeah!!! I made it through a completely crappy week.  I won't go into it in this post, maybe later.  I decided to open up my cupboard and take stock of my Works in Progress.  I have three 12" x 12" pull out drawers that are the perfect size for storing current projects.

Underneath the drawers is a handy hanging-file slide-out thingy.

Drawer 1

Current Block Lotto Blocks

Carolina Christmas

Current Block Swap Block

Drawer 2

Random String X's

Pinwheel Sampler Quilt-Along

Drawer 3

Two Baby Quilts - for the Twins.

What are all these projects, you ask?

I'm gonna go through each one, in their own post, over the next week or so.