Photo of a large sewing machine stitching brown and turquoise motifs on a dark brown fabric sandwich.

It’s here!

What’s here, you ask? Why, my brand-new replacement Bernina 790Pro!!!! It’s been a month since my original Pro sort of blew up, but Bernina sent me a new one that I picked up from my dealer  last night. The only reason for the delay was that the local tech — […]

Strips of fabric in a mottled lavender, along with several purple zippers with colorful zipper pulls.

Punting …

My beautiful Bernina 790Pro is still out of commission, though there is light at the end of the tunnel! When the local tech was finally able to get back to work after three weeks flat on his back, poor guy, he tried to order replacement parts for my machine. However, […]

Purple fabric pin cushion with teal accent in a Cathedral Window layout. The center has a gold swirly button with white "pearl" center. There is a small purple and white tassel sitting next to the cushion but not attached.

Stuck

That’s me — I’m stuck. I have several projects in the planning stages, and I can’t work on any of them. That’s because my beautiful new (since September, 2023) Bernina 790Pro died just over a week ago. It was refusing to stitch, so I took it in for the tech […]

Navy fabric machine embroidered mug rug.Embroidered motif shows a moon face crossing over a stylized sun. Text on the left is "Solar Eclipse," and on the right "04.08.24" in gold.

Solar Eclipse 2024

No, I won’t be able to see the total eclipse tomorrow; I don’t live in the right place, and I won’t be traveling to get there. That’s okay; I’ll see a partial one, and that’s fine. Still, this eclipse is big news! One of the machine embroidery sites I like […]

Sideways view of heart blocks alternating with 9-patch blocks to give a chain effect. The hearts are in rows of pale orange, white-ish, and pale green, while the chain blocks are small white squares on a blue-grey background. That blue-grey is also the background for the heart blocks.

Sideways …

I’m talking about the picture here. 😉 My “design wall” isn’t long enough to hang these rows the right direction, so they’re sideways. As I add more rows, I won’t be able to hang this at all; the quilt top will be too big in every direction, even though it […]

Piles of completed 9-patch blocks in grey-blue and white, alongside pieces that have yet to be combined into yet more 9-patch blocks.

1001 little pieces

Okay, I exaggerated, but it certainly does seem at times as though it’s that many! I’m making a new quilt, and one of the steps is to make 140 little 9-patch blocks that measure 3.5″ unfinished — and that’s for the throw sized version of this pattern. As you may […]