Friday, December 04, 2009

Christmas came early

Hi! Scroll down to the next entry if you're looking for my giveaway.

Yay! I got a new sewing machine for Christmas. It has a 30 day guarantee so I need to use it now instead of putting it under the tree for 3 weeks. I did some quilting on it right away. Can't show you very much though. (I will later.)

This quilt has dragonflies. These are the last two I did.

These are the first two. See that learning curve. I maybe should have practiced more before starting on the actual quilt. I hope the recipient of this quilt doesn't mind too much, that it was kind of a learning quilt for me.

Here's something I printed out today. I've been wanting to draw more often. I haven't read it yet but am going to tonight. I bet I can get my boys to draw with me, that would be fun.

I have been having fun browsing the giveaways over at Sew, Mama, Sew and enjoying all the comments on my little prize. I have added a few new interesting blogs to my reader. I'll tell you more about some of them in the next few days.

12 comments:

Audrie said... 1

How awesome! Guarantee or not, I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from ripping the box open once I got my grubby hands on it :)

Leslie said... 2

great job!!! those dragonflies are so fun and the new sewing machine is beautiful

Anonymous said... 3

Congratulations on your new machine and love the dragonflies!!

Natalia from Piece N Quilt said... 4

YAY for a new machine! Don't you just love getting new quilting stuff! :)

Cheryl Arkison said... 5

The more you quilt the better you get. And you can only do that on real quilts! Congrats on the new machine.

amylouwhosews said... 6

yay for early Christmas presents! I think the dragonflies are darling!

Sandra said... 7

Congrats on your new machine. Way to use it right away. I love dragonflies and I love yours. When I do free motion quilting I draw the design on paper. Once I can draw it without thinking about it I can generally quilt it. I think it's the brain memorizing the pattern. Great job!

Dielle said... 8

So fun! Love the dragonflies!

Unknown said... 9

Your dragonflies are amazing! I never would have thought of that :) Happy new machine and merry Christmas to you!!

Anonymous said... 10

Good for you jumping right in...both times I got my new machines there was a week or so of reading the manual and just contemplating the possibilities...plus a little bit of fear - what if they weren't as awesome as I had thought? Of course, they were...but it took a bit!

Sherri said... 11

Congrats on the sewing machine...love my Janome!

Rita @ Mochi Studios said... 12

Beautiful quilted dragonflies! So perfect for this lovely quilt! It looks so hard to do but I'd love to try quilting a dragonfly pattern sometime! You rock!