It's November - already! How can that happen?
It was a very busy in October - hence no blogging. Two weekends were spent on quilting related activities. First - the Divas attended our first "quilting retreat" - this one organized by a local community association by a lady who, by coincidence, I happened to know from university days. I ran into her at one of the quilt shows and stopped to chat. She let me know about the retreat. We had a blast and as I took a few pix, it will be the subject of another post.
What I am very excited about is that I decided to purchase a new long arm machine - an APQS Millennium with 12 foot frame. It should arrive at my door in a couple of weeks (I hope). On October 27 I was in Edmonton taking a lesson on this machine. I have Harley for sale - anyone in Calgary interested in a long arm, let me know.:) I'll have to decide on a name for the new one. I guess Falcon would be too obvious - and so Star Wars!
Sew - two busy sewing related weekends - a third weekend I had to leave on the Sunday for a conference in San Diego - hard to take! :)
Somehow I did manage a bit of sewing. In addition to the little baskets I was making as per the previous post, I also made these little bags. They are so cute! The fabric had a dozen separate cat panels purr panel, which made six bags. I cut the bags to fit the little panels. They have a zipper at the top and a little pocket inside. This came from a tutorial I found
here. I changed the size to fit the panel and mitered the bottom corners to give a bit of depth.
Marla and Marlow were over the other night. Hadn't seen them for ages. I was finally able to get Marlow's quilt to him and give him is grandson's quilt.
I think not so many busy weekends lined up for November so maybe I can get some more sewing done! And I can't wait to get my new long arm!