The Sewing Mom

Last week was my mom’s birthday! My 2 sisters and their families were able to help her celebrate and spent the long weekend together doing just that. While they were together, they managed to do some fabric shopping at one of my favorite quilt shops and they also had their sewing machines out long enough to create these pieced table toppers or wall hangings. I sure do wish I could’ve been there too!

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We have family visiting from out of town, so I haven’t spent too much time on the computer this weekend. But, I have to tell you that I was at Joann’s fabric store today and checked out some new sewing machines.

Now, I really don’t need a new sewing machine, mine is only about 6 years old. But, I can’t help myself when I see the new machines, I start to drool. I really drool whenever they’re not busy in the Viking/Husqvarna shop inside of Joanns and I can get them to show me the latest machine on the market. Today it was the “Ruby”, a heavily enhanced embroidery/sewing machine that does anything you might imagine and has over 1000 different stitches to choose from! I am always tempted, but I’m not sure yet what type of machine I want. You see, I all ready have a sewing machine that also does embroidery, the down side is that my embroidery software was lost in our last relocation and I have yet to find it. Then, my computer crashed and I lost what was loaded on my computer, so I really haven’t been able to use my embroidery for the last year or so. I do all of my sewing on that machine though and it works very well, except when I want to do any machine quilting. I’ve never been very fond of the way it quilts. It’s tough to get the tension right and the sewing bed itself isn’t that big so it can be difficult to maneuver the layers of the quilt through the machine.

So, the truth is, while I would love to have a fancy new machine, I’m also not ready (and not sure if I ever will be) to spend $6000 on this one that I saw today!

What happens when 700+ band kids want to spell? They run like mad around the field until they form the perfect letters to spell out the team mascot, EAGLES!

Personally, I thought they did a great job, especially since it was the first performance and the first football game of the season. By the way, the football team won, 33-27 in a real nail biter of a game!

In case you’re wondering (I know you are!), my daughter is somewhere near the top of the L.