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Going Fishing

October 31, 2007 in Machines by emily | No comments

Ok, not really.

It’s really just an aftermarket thread guide for the Hinterberg Voyager 17. You think for as much as they charge for the machine this wouldn’t be necessary. The recommended glue is hot glue. It doesn’t work very well since it has come off twice. Must find some stronger glue.

So the sun and the moon and the stars aligned…

October 25, 2007 in Machines by emily | No comments

… and both kids slept for 5 minutes so I could get some quilting practice in with the new Hinterberg Voyager 17. Maeve brought home a lovely bug from school and it’s making the rounds here leaving little time for sewing the past couple days.

Eek! I love this thing. Now to find some more interesting colors of thread to run through it.

I might do a real quilt tomorrow instead of clearance sheets from Target.

It’s here!

October 25, 2007 in Machines by emily | 1 comment

Yay!

First, the reason why this machine was necessary:

That would be a 6″ throat on the Pfaff 2134 vs. 17″ throat on the Hinterberg Voyager 17. Beautious.

And then this:

Ohmygoodnes. So pretty. So lovely. So friggin’ huge! But I guess that is the point. Now to attach the leaders, clean up the rest of the room, oh, and figure out how to use it!

Oh Moneytree…

October 2, 2007 in Machines, Quilts - In progress by emily | 3 comments

Will you please come visit me?

So any quilter knows how much fun it is to shove a huge quilt through their normal sewing machine. You have to make sure you don’t quilt any wrinkles or folds into it … your free motion stitches stay smooth and equal in length … your quilting stays an even density even though you can only see about 5 square inches at a time … shall I continue? Probably not since I am probably sounding a wee bit whiney.

Does this look familiar to anyone?

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Luckily, my handy dandy Machingers make this part of the process a little more pleasant, but it’s still tough and hard on the back and shoulders.

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So the solution to this is to send every quilt to someone with a long arm machine or buy something bigger myself. Of course being the sewing machine lover that I am, I want my own. Not a super fancy computer driven one, just something simple that has a bigger machine and rollers so I don’t have to baste.

I hear angels singing.

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Isn’t she beautiful? Rollers… a table that expands to 120″… it even has storage underneath!! What sew-er couldn’t use more storage? She is the Pfaff Grand Quilter with a Next Generation Quilt Frame. Absolutely beautiful. Problem is she costs a lot more than I currently have.

Moneytree?

Will you please come visit me?

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