General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn/chat about our day!Just Gab'n, 1 by Quilter5bdsr

Quilter5bdsr wrote:
Happy belated b'day to Todd....hope the carrot cake was the best ever.....

Debbie I'm still laughing about the "scratching" in places not wanting to know about. I too almost ruined a keyboard with that one. Coffee all over my PJs!!!! The next time she starts with the "when I make it" stuff, hit her with "Okay so you bring it !!!!" and see what happens-----diplomacy is wasted on someone like her...

Saying hello to everyone -- and both Norm and I are so glad to hear from Shirley and Tubby. I do hope you will join us often. And how are you feeling Bev? Jonathan is getting so big Stacey and he looks so healthy. You MUST be doing it right .....And Judy, and Mary and Dianne and Laura and anyone else I missed.

Betty you are so busy... I thought you were to try to take it easy for a while. You need to slow down a bit my friend as we want you here for a looooonnnnng time to come....Sean is coming one afternoon this week to start his project. I just need to find out which day....He is excited about doing it.

I finished piecing the second kittens quilt top for my DGDs. They are 7 and 3 1/2 so I'm hoping the older one will still like it. She is growing up toooooo fast. I finished the lap quilt for my SonIL and just have to sew down the binding. I finished three table runners, four placemats, four candle mats, four ornaments, six 80"rows, one appliqued Santa block and still need to make a stocking.... No wonder I'm tired...And to top this off, I spent an afternoon teaching Norm how to piece a table runner. He had to do it all from ironing his fabrics to cutting a straight edge; from how to use the rulers and rotary cutter to cutting the blocks. Then he learned how to thread the machine and wind a bobbin. Then he sat down and sewed on it for the very first time ever. I showed him how to "nest" his seams so his corners would meet and that's when he ran into trouble. It seems the tips of his fingers are numb!!! He has no feeling in them from the operation on his arm. He knew there was some loss but didn't know how much. So he nested his seams visually. He did really well and I'm so proud of him. I wanted him to know what was involved in a pieced quilt top before he started to quilt one on the long arm. I think it gave him a greater appreciation for the work that goes into one. I'll post a picture of this treasure!!!

And now to tell you about why I've been so scarce lately. Norm bought me a new sewing machine. No, not the longarm one - that is for him!!! He bought me the Janome Special Edition 11000!!!!! This will just about make a quilt for me with everything that is built into it. It is also an embroidery machine which I've never run one before. So between this one and his longarm, I'm on a major learning curve...
So if I'm quiet for a while - don't worry about me. I'll just be wrapped up in the moment for a while.

Here is Norm's first table runner!!!!