Re: Last day of show/What a hit!
- From: "C & S" <sawdust.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:59:30 -0500
Looks like you have a great excuse to get a new machine! ;o) - That's great
that Billy is into quilting. How old is he? DD, who is 8 has started to
sew. She has my Grand mother's machine (the one I started to quilt on which
is 46 yrs old). I had it cleaned. I works great (was top of the line when
she bought it in 1959).
I bought my Bernina 8 yrs ago used. I have the 1090 (the older line), which
I find to be a work horse. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I had thought
of buying the 180 when I worked at a LQS that was also a Bernina dealer (we
could buy it whole sale - employee perk). But, after evaluating and
reconsidering, I felt I wasn't into embroidery enough to justify the cost.
It's was a wonderful machine. Of course now they've come up with another
model that looks even sweeter. My machine has some fancy embroidery
stitches that I rarely use.
Thanks for sharing your day. Do get some rest to beat that cold of yours.
--
Carole
Champlain, NY
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Fine style does not make something true, nor has a man a wise soul
because he has a handsome face and well-chosen eloquence.
Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It's really sad, yep it is. To walk around for a bit today, sick and
> miserable and wishing it didn't all have to end.
> But it ended on a good note for me.
>
> I had promised my kiddos, after their patience with mom being out of
> touch for a week and a half, that they would get to go at least one day
> and look. We just got back home. And man, was it worth the misery of
> walking around in the freezing cold!
>
> Billy had a blast! I'm not sure who's more hooked in this family, him
> or me! He did the "Let Kids Sew" booth and the lady told him he was "a
> natural!" He ate it up! He was in awe walking through the quilts to
> get to the educational area. He was just as sidetracked and dazed as I
> was! He found a "strip" quilt he wants to make for himself (but I
> wouldn't buy the kit, holy toledo it was $99!) He had a field day
> selecting his own "brights" FQ's for his crazy quilt collection.
>
> And then there was Bernina.
>
> Yes, that requires a statement all to itself. You know, I have been
> quilting for a year now on an ancient Singer Merritt, and as you know,
> only halfway through that year, came into the 15-91 (which is perfect
> for machine quilting). I have thought along the way, "One of these
> days, when I get to be a 'grown up' quilter, I'd like to have a new
> machine that does fancy things and embroidery." But that was about it,
> just a future fantasy and a wish.
>
> Billy has set his sights on a Bernina 440! O M G !!!!!! He took the
> demo, he sewed on it, he did fancy stitches (I think the lady was
> right, he IS a natural - he fell right into that machine like he'd been
> using it his whole life!) It would take me a month of lessons and a
> really big book to figure that darn thing out! He BEGGED me to buy
> that machine for him. Yeah RIGHT! You better start writing a LOT of
> letters to Santa buckaroo! Of course, the sales lady would only be
> doing her job while she pointed out that if we bought it at the show,
> it would only be about $3000 dollars! I felt faint. She gave him a
> littler brochure, grimaced at me and told him to put it under his
> pillow each night and wish, wish, wish! (and mom suggested, yep, and
> keep on wishin and prayin!)
>
> He admired quilt after quilt and I was amazed by him. I thought he
> would be attracted mostly to loud and bright colors and abstracts....
> NOT. He fell in love with a Baltimore Album and the Tumbling Blocks
> (which make me dizzy and sick at my stomach, LOL) He took picture
> after picture of Crazy Quilts and florals and he ADORED Kaffe Fassett!
> He wants to make BRIGHT colorful quilts like that too!
>
> DD on the other hand..... "yeah, they're cool." That's it? Just
> "they're cool?" Yeah mom, I like them, but I don't have the patience
> for that. True, she really doesn't, right now - but I reassured her,
> one day when she is older, she will have that patience.
>
> It was an amazing trip to share with my kiddos. I am so thrilled with
> Billy's enthusiasm - that I may just start saving up for that machine!
>
> Hugs,
> Tina
>
.
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