Quiet Day #2
Reversible scrappy quilt will leave Stauffer with a new embroidery label.
Do not get me wrong – Dennis does not interfere with my creative juices. There is just something about a totally quiet home that allows for me to have total concentration. My new machine and my desire to try all it has to offer, does require my kind of quiet. I do know that others could perform brain surgery with music blaring and go-go dancers caught out of the corner of their eyes.
Yesterday brought to a close the king sized quilt. I wanted to put a label on it before I turn it over to its new owners. Previously, I have had to buy cloth-backed paper to feed into the computer printer and work at setting the printing before attaching it to a project. I so wanted to have a sewn embroidered label for it.
No more inkjet printer labels. I have thread and fabric!
I watched Bernina YouTube videos until my eyes burned. I stopped following instructions in the owners manual with my fingers, as I was afraid I would smear the ink and really be up a creek without a paddle. It took a combination of having my laptop down in my sewing room going step by step of embroidery instructions while tapping on the display screen through each step. I was actually pleased with the first label – right out of the gate – if it had not been that I had set the date prior to sewing at 2115. I doubt that the quilt will make it that long.
I really think I am going to enjoy my new sewing machine on so many levels of creativity. The quality will last for decades as I sew straight seams, mend and shorten jeans, do free motion quilting or embroidering a dish towel or do any entire quilt with embroidery. How do I know that? My sister bought her first Bernina in 1965 and her machine is still working like a champ for her. Ah, family members . . . keep your creative juices alive and well.
Dennis will be home for supper as this is the last day of his trade show in Jackson. After today it will not bother me if there is one or three televisions going on in the background. I broke ground on the most challenging of the functions. The fear is gone and replaced by . . . “what if.”