December 2007

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New Sunshine quilt up on Etsy

December 27, 2007 in Etsy, Quilts - Completed by emily | 2 comments

It seems like I did the piecing on this one forever ago. But it is finally done and up on Etsy.

Zelda and finishing the 30s Reproduction Pineapple quilt are next up.

Finished in the (Saint) Nick of time

December 23, 2007 in Quilts - Completed by emily | 2 comments

Nothing like waiting until the last minute. I bought a kit for a Christmas quilt back um, cough, cough, mid-June. I finally finished it about 5 days before Christmas. I’ve made a million quilts between then and now including an almost identical Christmas quilt for a gift but of course ours isn’t done until now. Oh well.

The last third of this was quilted on the new machine.

Finally… a machine that stitches properly

December 23, 2007 in Machines by emily | 5 comments

Now that the Hinterberg Voyager 17 mess is all over with it was time to look for (another) new machine to help with quilting. I went back to what I had been looking at — the Pfaff Grand Quilter. Did some reading and decided that’s what I wanted.

The local dealer didn’t have the Pfaff in stock but they did have the Viking Husqvarna version (the Mega Quilter). Tried it out. Sold. It was a little dicey at the beginning when they were showing me the machine and the thread kept breaking. I almost ran out of the store screaming. Thankfully the bobbin case just wasn’t inserted all the way. A little nudge and it was stitching flawlessly.

In my reading before going into the store I found out the Pfaff and Viking are made by Janome and Janome has a 9″ machine with their label as well but we decided that it was worth buying the Pfaff so we could have local dealer support if necessary.

The is a carefully cropped photo… the mess beside, below and beyond the machine must not be revealed.

It’s only done a little bit of work so far but it stitched beautifully. Wub.

The things you can create with Mens’ Triple XL pants

December 23, 2007 in Kids, Misc by emily | No comments

We have a silly little tradition of matching family PJs on Christmas morning. In previous years we’ve gone with Gymboree but they look exactly the same year after year. We needed something different this year.

Being a Hanna (Andersson) addict, I naturally turned to them. The boys were going to wear blue snowflakes and the girls got pink snowflakes. So I ordered them, tried them on and promptly returned them. I’m ok with the kids looking like little snausages, but Sean and I? Uh, no thanks.

Old Navy had a cute pair of snowman PJ pants but I guess they don’t do the cutesy family matching since they didn’t sell coordinating pairs for the kiddos. So I decided to make some myself! I ordered us all white tops, 2 pairs of pants for Sean and I and the largest size ON carries, Triple-XL.

Through the magic of scissors and a sewing machine we went from pants to this …