Wednesday, April 28, 2010

New items have been posted on my Etsy page since my last post! Today I added a totebag I finished today! It's the Chicken Bag!


See link at right if you wish to know more.

Message from flickr today

Woohoo! I received a message from flickr.com today announcing that Simplicity Patterns picked my photo of a project I made from their pattern for their flickr gallery. You can see it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplicitypatterns/galleries/72157623722904916

I'm now on Etsy!

Today I created my very own Etsy shop! I have only 2 items listed so far, but will add more later.
You can find it at:

http://ladybee.etsy.com


P.S. Item #3 has been added!

March, 2010

It's almost Easter! Do you have a neat idea for Easter projects? I came across an easy one here:

http://www.favecrafts.com/Felt/Cross-Felt-Ornament

We're doing this at the Crafty Ladies of Lafayette gathering on Monday.

Also, I went to a seminar at Hancock Fabrics recently sponsored by Bernina. It was about the proper use of stabilizers, how to embroider on towels, baby items, etc.

I'm planning to visit my mom sometime in April, depending on when she can get an appointment for a medical procedure she needs to get done. She will need someone to drive her to the clinic on the day of the test, and having gone through this myself, I know what she'll be going through.
Hopefully the test will turn out negative.

Note 4/28/2010: Mom decided not to have the test done as it would be hard on her because of her age. I did go for a visit though. Had an uneventful trip.

Finally!

Wow! Where did January go? It's the middle of February already!

We made it to AZ and back okay, came back with bags of oranges from my daughter's trees (she has three of them in her back yard).

Did some embroidery on my new machine while we were there, also sewing with the new sewing machine.

Anyhow, I have a Valentine for you that I created with my digitizer.



I've been doing a lot more sewing since we got back from our trip to AZ. Plus I'll be using the digitizing program for new designs. Just wish I was a graphic artist, but I can't draw worth a flip!

Later...

December update

Well, a month has gone by since my last post. Not a whole lot to report on. Except that I now have a new sewing machine! In fact, we're leaving tomorrow for Mesa AZ for the holidays and I'm bringing the new machine and my Janome Sew-Mini with me to AZ and will leave the Sew-Mini there for my daughter and granddaughters to use. I hope to teach the older one a bit about sewing.

The machine I bought is a Brother CS-770, which doesn't have any reviews I can find. I bought it at Hancock Fabrics on sale. It's computerized, and has a lot more fancy stitches on it than I'll ever use (I do have an embroidery machine, you know).

Hope you all have peace and joy this holiday season!

New toy!

Time for the monthly update!

Since I posted last, I've been playing with my new serger, but the biggest news is that last Sunday I bought a brand new embroidery machine! It's a Brother PE-770. It has over 100 designs in the machine and has a USB port for a memory stick so I can transport designs from my computer to the machine.

I've also been acquiring free patterns from the web. You would not believe the amount of free machine embroidery patterns there are out there!

Also have gotten a digitizer program (also free with purchase of 5 patterns). I have successfully digitized a logo for one of the organizations my hubby belongs to. Hopefully they'll want to embroider it on shirts and caps, but my machine isn't equipped for caps yet (it requires a special attachment).