Hi! I'm Back!

Yikes, where did this month go?  Well, I'll tell you.  We hired a new GM, a new coach and a new coaching staff.  That's where I've been.

During all this craziness, we've celebrated Christmas, my birthday, and New Year's.

I hinted about a new Singer in a previous post.  My sister-in-law, Suzie, has an estate sale business in Bloomington, IL.  Mom spotted this lovely before Christmas on her website and asked me if I wanted it for my birthday.  Yes, please!

It is in EXCELLENT condition and sews beautifully.  I'm so happy with it!

Look at the case and the goodies inside!  It even came with it's own walking foot!

The serial number puts the date around 1950.  The lady that owned this took very, very good care of it and according to Suzie, used it to make many quilts.  Look at the bobbin case!  Pay no attention to the dust and lint.  I'm in the process of cleaning it.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season!

Talk to you soon,

Tracey

Happy Birthday To Me!

My mom and I.  I have no idea how old I was in this picture but I love it.  As a gift this year, she made me not one, but two scrap books full of pictures of my life.  I cherish these.  Thank you mom, because if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be celebrating today.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a safe and very Merry Christmas!

No Slacking Here - I Promise

Because our team is not doing very well (2-12) we have been moving players in and out, up and down.    Whew!  Anyway, I PROMISE I will have lots to show you (new singer featherweight, wink, wink) as soon as this season is over (2 more weeks).

I'm relaxing at home tonight and then off to our Christmas party tomorrow night.  I'll be back soon.

Have a Merry Christmas Everyone!

Projects

These adorable bags were made by my friend, Amy, in the spirit of our new owner, Mr Khan.  She also works for Mr. Khan on the Flex-N-Gate side of his business.  She's very creative and it was by complete accident we found out that we both love to sew.  

We were out to dinner one night when she was visiting and my husband mentioned my new Bernina.  she says "you have a Bernina"?  She was the only one who even knew what it was!  LOL!  Of course we started talking and realized we both love to make stuff.  

She told me you can get the tutorial from the Noodlehead blog.  I'm totally going to make these now.

Hi Amy!  Wish you were closer so we could have a sew day. 

Tracey

Retreat Projects

The day started with a Holly Jolly surprise.  On Friday we made these cute little Santa bags (his little hat should be standing up) and there were nice little goodies in it this morning from the Holly Jolly Elf.

Everyone was busy completing their projects.  I got the center of mine done:

More projects:

We all had a great time and it was so much fun getting together with everyone.  Thanks again to Karen and Faye!

Holly Jolly Quilt Retreat

I've been having a FANTASTIC time at Cinnamon's Holly Jolly Quilt Retreat this weekend!  We started Friday afternoon at 2:00 and sewed until, well, in my case, 9:00 but you could sew until midnight if you wanted.  Then back up early yesterday morning at 8:00 to sew again until midnight.  Today, we begin at 9:00 and sew until 3:00.  GREAT weekend to get those Christmas presents done.

Karen and Faye, our fearless leaders, kept things lively with Christmas Carols, door prizes and of course, food.

You can work on anything you want but they had an optional quilt project if you wanted to do that.  I chose to make the optional quilt because, well, starting something new is always more fun than finishing the hundreds of projects you already have.  ;-)

I'll have more pictures later but this is the pic of my project, Jubilee.  I'm using a Jelly Roll of Little Black Dress by BasicGrey from Moda.

More retreat today.

Talk to you later,
Tracey

A Little Walk

Team Jaguars (about 12 - 15 of us) walked in the Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes this morning.  What a beautiful day!  This is my friend, Dana, with her two children.  The kids were soo good.  We had a great time and got some good exercise in as well.

More of our group ahead.  Alisa, our ringleader, is on the left.  Thanks Alisa for organizing this.

Hope you all had a great day as well.

Best,

Tracey

Sewing Machine

Somehow my sewing machine post was deleted.  I'm sure it wasn't user error (wink, wink).  Anyway, I'm putting it back up.

I took the new owner class last Saturday and learned a lot of things it can do using the different feet.  This weekend is the new owner class specific to the 830 but I can't make it.  Walking in a 5K on Saturday morning so I'll be taking a rain check on the class.

A Little Quilt

I haven't had any time this week to play with my new machine.  My boss was in London for the Rams/Patriot's game and so I ended up working a lot more than I planned.

Today, however, I was able to finish up this little quilt I showed you a while ago.  I tried one of the new decorative stitches (circles) on the binding.

I was trying a new half square triangle technique and thought my PKM fabric was perfect for this.  I also just did some stipple quilting.

Back to more sewing.

Later,

Tracey