Thanks for those numbers Girls, so anything over 50,000 may not be as unused as advertised!

I read that you had to stand up and push/pull to work them. Is that right?

Are you thinking of weaving on a loom Sewbee ????

I have been considering an embroidery machine since early last year ... but have deferred for exactly the reasons mentioned in this thread .... cost, usability, whether it would be used etc etc .... but over the course of a year and three quarters reading up and researching them, then finding one in what seems to be nearly new condition, with the hideously expensive software, at a reasonable cost coupled with a desperately guilty husband with absolutely no idea what to get his wife for her birthday, the time seems just right! 

Whether or not I will use it remains to be seen, but you can't tell that until you get your mitts on one and I found nowhere prepared to hire one out! (And I did try)

I think the machines are getting much more user friendly now, or at least the two I tried seemed pretty intuitive ... and there are plenty of tuts on t'internet on how to use the software.

So wish me luck Girls and if you are on our route (Salisbury, Basingstoke, M25, Chelmsford, Colchester) and see a grey BMW with a girl with a silvery bob grinning like a loon in the passenger seat speeding past your window tomorrow, give her a wave!

Nope!

Ideas are marinading for the Group quilt idea (and a bonza new one yet to be discussed)

Syrinx is awol. ... hopefully on her hols.

Mystery quilt, a couple have been finished, Yankee Doodle and Twopence, others  yet to be presented

and the BOM , peeps blocks have started to appear and blooming marvellous they are too.

Looking wonderful LM, keep calm and carry on!

I'm still intrigued to know exactly the sort of things you are going to embroider

Well I was thinking of embroidering some lovely lily of the valley on some hand towels and a poppy on some elasticated beige nylon trousers and then, just for you ... some roses along the bottom edge of a beige Green cardi ...
sound nice Low ???


Reason for editing ... Beige ?? what was I thinking???

I have to tidy and clear the desk upstairs in the sewing/art/wardrobe/spare room this weekend.
If I'm lucky enough to be on the receiving end of a  machine it will need somewhere to live.

If I start about 10 am I think I'll hit desktop about 1pm ....  terrible how it all mounts up isnt it? 

Oh Fajita,

I am so sorry if I didnt make the destructions clear enough but how brave are you to post a pic!!!

Everyone has problems as they go along with their projects but few are honest or brave enough to own up to them ...

For instance in this project ... After I had finished sewing the first part of the wreath together and had a clear board,
I got distracted by a phone call half way through the cutting and laying out of the second set of pieces .....
when I had finished all the cutting and pinning to my board I had a great big hole in the 'jigsaw' right in the middle!!

I searched high, I searched low, I sifted through the waste, I moved pieces around ... an hour later I gave up sewed four more 5" blocks together and cut a replacement and carried on.

As I cleared up for the evening and loaded the ironing board in the corner up with the sweat shop I spied, proudly pinned to the 'design wall' i front of my eyes, the errant block, quietly laughing at me!!!! GGGGGGRRRR !!!!!!!! 



I hope you haven't been too disheartened and can maybe come back to this 'block' afresh next week or so ... you have a lovely range of blocks in the BOM HOF and it would be a shame to miss one!

I have sent an email, pm and fb message out to Fran about this .... Lets hope she checks in soon!!!

Have got in touch with Fran, who will be looking at the problem this morning!