First post this year.

I have not done any sewing since Christmas.

We have been renovating the bathroom downstairs.

New paint, new vanity and taps and mirror and light fixture.

New flooring.

And a mess to clean up!!

So I thought I would just post some pictures of my machines.

I am hoping to get inspired to sew something soon.

My Babylock Elageo

I love this machine.

My Huskylock 905

This has been a good machine but--

I wish I had the Babylock Imagine!

My Pfaff 2040

My Janome Coverlock

This machine is just sitting on a shelf

because I do not have space to have it set up.

This is not as good a machine as the

Babylock Coverlock but it was cheaper.

It will skip stitches on the seams.

Very annoying!

Hence - it sits on a shelf.

Christmas Day

The kids got blow up sleds for Christmas.

They went sledding in the afternoon.

Luckily the temperature wasn't too cold.

Merry Christmas

May everyone have a Blessed Christmas.

This is an embroidery from Embroidery Library.

And this is what I got myself for Christmas.

It is really awesome.

Quilt label and patches

Another quilt label.

I thought the sewing design was appropriate.

Patching a pair of jeans for Christian.

The knees are wore out on these jeans.

Thought the little puppies would be cut.

Quilt labels

I have not blogged much recently.

Sorry about that, but the craft show thing

was kind of a bummer.

Kind of took the wind out of my sails for a while.

Time to move on.

I am considering opening an Etsy shop.

Does anyone have any thoughts on that?

In my quest to find something to sew that I could sell,

my friend suggested embroidered quilt label.

I could do custom orders.

I thought that was a good idea so I have been

working on designing some.

So far, this is what I have come up with.

What do you think?

Am I on the right track?

I have a few more to embroider and will post pictures of them when

I have them done.

Again, the photography needs some improvement.

When I see them as photos I can see better where they need some tweaking.

Is that how you spell it?

I will continue to work on this idea.

Does anyone have any more ideas?

Yesterday was Jessicas birthday

She is 9 now.

I took these early in the morning before school.

She was so excited it was her birthday

and loved the little red plaid skirt.

Eating breakfast.

Sharing with Mickey!!

Craft show

Last Saturdays craft show.

I have procrastinated about loading these pictures,

but, what the heck.

This is my table.

Here are some pictures of a few other vendors.

The piggy banks where soooo cute.

I loved this set.

Some wood working

Knitting.

Cute babies.