A) you are so clever with your solutions.
B) you get some very interesting jobs, don't you?
C) you do a fabulous job.

Welcome!  Most people only use their straight stitch anyway. especially quilters. You can still do fancy stuff, just not fancy stitches!

Let us know what you want to sew and we can steer you toward a reliable tutorial or information source, plus answer questions here. Pinterest is a great source of ideas but when you're new at something and you don't know what you don't know it can be very hard to tell if a project or tutorial has decent instructions suitable for a newbie that will produce good results.

Hang around the sewing forums enough and you'll find plenty of us mess up projects now and then too. You learn by doing.

Stylecaster says they are. I'm just not certain what types of vest are fashionable now.

I've always loved them. I have one I loved to death taken from a 1940's vintage mans tuxedo. It was a silk faille in front, low curved lapel and I replaced the carved black mother of pearl studs with some I found in an antique shop. The new ones were sterling silver mechanism on back and post, with the front being a 14K gold cup with a natural pearl mounted on it. Gorgeous and expensive for "buttons". I still have the vest and would like to do a knock off.

In the interest of Darkside Solidarity, camaraderie, team spirit, (fluffed you up enough yet? ), keeping the chatter going, etc and ad nauseam, I will make a TSP Project Linus 2019 rules compliant quilty for our local Senior Quilts project, seeing as how the local PL coordinator wants nothing that might have a single cat hair on it. 

It'll be about the middle suggested size, as we do basically lap quilts and throws.

Report 1: I will spend this month contemplating what to do and keep my eyes open as I go through stuff here. I've been having a hankering lately to do pinwheels, so that could happen. I also really like doing Disappearing 9 Patch for some reason, and that could be my default. Also, despite not liking blue I have an awful lot of blue fabric and might use this as an excuse to get rid of it... And then there's.......

Correction:  I will spend this month dithering over what to do and ....

If this helps any of you, here is a recent blog post showing quilts from some of the previous Murder Mystery quilt series. Also, she mentions doing Modern, original blocks on the website.

I have enough trouble picking fabrics that make an attractive quilt when I know the pattern beforehand. I'm afraid I'll really mess up a mystery quilt and that might put me off quilting altogether. Then what do I do with all of this fabric? 

Sandra, Dear, lovely work on yet another oddball customer request. 

So, is that real fur or faux? And either way, just what fur is that supposed to be? By the fluff in some places it looks real, but having a second matching coat I'm thinking faux.

I spent a lot of time years ago selling fur coats, but never any quite like this. This looks a bit like fox, fully let out, but I've only ever seen red fox in coats and it was long ago. Was tempted to buy one by a stellar long coat we got in but I didn't have the life to go with it.

@Manuela , since we've been talking alternative contests on various threads, I thought I'd request your consideration about the sewing for little ones coming up in March I believe. You included clothes for Fur Babies. Ever try to dress a cat?  Didn't think so. One or both of you need to be on Valium.

Alternatively could I possibly sew for my 18" Madame Alexander American Girl type doll? I don't think we have a category for it otherwise. Unless we go for sewing for others, in which case you'll be wanting me to seek psychiatric help. 

Otherwise I see a few possibilities later in the year now that I've had a re-look. Pint sized Posh Frock anyone? 

This sounds like a good alternative to getting rid of it outright. Sellers remorse is just as bad as buyers remorse. Perhaps give your self a time limit that's sensible. I'm thinking 6 months to a year, but pick what feels best. Mark it on the calendar that it'a time to remove the machine if it hasn't been used.

Of course you do know that if and when you sell it you will want to use it within the next 2 weeks. Always happens to me. Have something for years then "need" it right after getting rid of it.