With so much time going towards embroidery, I only finished one bag to list this week but it's a fun one. The colors are so vibrant that they really pop.
Monday, August 31, 2015
So much embroidery!
I spent last week embroidering enough bags that I could take my machine in to get cleaned. I typically spend one day a week embroidering, two days if I try to make progress on the Borg bag, so it felt like the embroidery would never end! So I was packing up my machine when I decided to find out how much it would cost and called them up. Now it has been awhile since the last cleaning because I felt the last people who did it were incompetent but $265 for a simple cleaning seems a bit much to me. I didn't take my machine in. There's another store that isn't a Viking dealer but will service all brands so I'm going to call them up when they open and see what they will charge. I've never taken my machines to anyone but a Viking dealer so I'm not sure how comfortable I am with going elsewhere but I will at least look into it.
With so much time going towards embroidery, I only finished one bag to list this week but it's a fun one. The colors are so vibrant that they really pop.
With so much time going towards embroidery, I only finished one bag to list this week but it's a fun one. The colors are so vibrant that they really pop.
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Crazy week
This has been a week of trying to get things done that I've put off for awhile. It was only partly successful. I didn't get to everything that I had hoped to and some of what I did didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.
We had the carpet cleaned but the guy was really late so that messed up that day. And then it took more than 24 hours for it to dry when he said it would take 3, maybe 4, hours. It didn't even improve the looks of the carpet and it was kinda crunchy after. So while it was good to give that room a good clean (everything dusted, walls washed, blinds cleaned, fan wiped down...) and we rearranged all of the furniture, I don't think the actual carpet cleaning was worth it. It was a perk for renewing our lease so I didn't really pay for it but I missed out on the gift card that was the alternative perk. Totally going with the gift card next time.
I also looked into taking some classes again but I spent a lot of time preparing and figuring out a bunch of stuff related to that and I still don't know if I can take them. I'm sure the time will be worth it but I feel like I didn't get very much done this week because the prep work took so much time with no immediate result. I'm apparently all about the instant gratification.
Last week and into this week was spent going through my yarn stash. I need more space and I thought I might be able to consolidate that stash and create the space I needed. Unfortunately, that led to the complete re-cataloging of my yarn and didn't end up creating any space. Fortunately, it was a lot of fun going through all of my yarn and Ravelry is updated with everything. It will be much easier to pick a project now and find the yarn once I've decided on something.
So, lots of fairly long projects that don't feel like they've benefited me. I know it was good to do all of this but I just don't feel it was good. Weird. I think I'll do some instant gratification things this next week. Not sure what that will be but maybe something will come to me.
We had the carpet cleaned but the guy was really late so that messed up that day. And then it took more than 24 hours for it to dry when he said it would take 3, maybe 4, hours. It didn't even improve the looks of the carpet and it was kinda crunchy after. So while it was good to give that room a good clean (everything dusted, walls washed, blinds cleaned, fan wiped down...) and we rearranged all of the furniture, I don't think the actual carpet cleaning was worth it. It was a perk for renewing our lease so I didn't really pay for it but I missed out on the gift card that was the alternative perk. Totally going with the gift card next time.
I also looked into taking some classes again but I spent a lot of time preparing and figuring out a bunch of stuff related to that and I still don't know if I can take them. I'm sure the time will be worth it but I feel like I didn't get very much done this week because the prep work took so much time with no immediate result. I'm apparently all about the instant gratification.
Last week and into this week was spent going through my yarn stash. I need more space and I thought I might be able to consolidate that stash and create the space I needed. Unfortunately, that led to the complete re-cataloging of my yarn and didn't end up creating any space. Fortunately, it was a lot of fun going through all of my yarn and Ravelry is updated with everything. It will be much easier to pick a project now and find the yarn once I've decided on something.
So, lots of fairly long projects that don't feel like they've benefited me. I know it was good to do all of this but I just don't feel it was good. Weird. I think I'll do some instant gratification things this next week. Not sure what that will be but maybe something will come to me.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Peacock thread
I visited 10-12 quilting stores in the past couple of weeks looking for Row by Row patterns for Mom. I also took the opportunity to check out the stores because quilting stores have some of the most amazing fabrics that make great linings for my bags. So I took notes at each store and bought a good pile of fabric. I do love fabric shopping.
One store had an amazing selection of embroidery thread and it's pretty close by so I think I may have found a new source for thread. I have noticed that my machines can be fussy about the thread I run through them, especially the metallics, so I got one spool to try out. It was hard to decide and I was going to go with a true metallic and then I saw this peacock thread. This was the first store of the day so I spent the rest of the day looking for the perfect lining fabric and I found one that was okay but nothing that was perfect.
This past week, I was out looking for something else and found a fabric that I thought might work so I picked it up. It didn't work for the other project but when I tossed it on my table, it landed right next to my peacock thread. Now I'm trying to decide what color the outer bag should be. Black could work but I have some teal dull satin that matches the lining almost perfectly. Black would allow the thread to be the star but the teal matches so well.
One store had an amazing selection of embroidery thread and it's pretty close by so I think I may have found a new source for thread. I have noticed that my machines can be fussy about the thread I run through them, especially the metallics, so I got one spool to try out. It was hard to decide and I was going to go with a true metallic and then I saw this peacock thread. This was the first store of the day so I spent the rest of the day looking for the perfect lining fabric and I found one that was okay but nothing that was perfect.
This past week, I was out looking for something else and found a fabric that I thought might work so I picked it up. It didn't work for the other project but when I tossed it on my table, it landed right next to my peacock thread. Now I'm trying to decide what color the outer bag should be. Black could work but I have some teal dull satin that matches the lining almost perfectly. Black would allow the thread to be the star but the teal matches so well.
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