Drum roll please……...

I posted a while back about painting cloth to make my youngest a

cuff bracelet. The cloth painting was the easy part….the sewing

….not so much! But I've been practicing free motion sewing…

For about a week I ranted…raved…cussed…and generally

ran my blood pressure up trying to get the sewing machine

to work. I finally got a friend to come show me what I was

doing wrong and found out the machine was broken….well

duh…but glad to know it wasn't just me! She gave me a 

loaner and I've now become an EXPERT thread untangler. 

I AM getting better…..

This is a cuff from Alisa Burkes book…Sew Wild…that

I based my cuff on…

And here's the one I finally finished…..

Thank goodness I was going for the "messy" sewing look!

She'll like it anyway 'cause it has her chillrens on it!

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhh.................

aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhh...........

I've just spent some "quality" time with my old nemesis....

THE SEWING MACHINE!

I want to do some free motion sewing....
a little hard to do when you don't know how to sew...

I actually embarrassed myself with the words

that came out of my mouth....

It took me over an hour to figure out the whole 

threading/bobbin thingy....sigh...

Now for the 'tension' problem....

oh yeah....there's a tension problem 

going on here ...and on the stitches too.

I picked up this book by Alisa Burke yesterday....

LOVIN' it! Now if I can just calm down enough

to figure out what I'm doing wrong.....

Just look at this scarf from her book.....WANT!

I'd like to think I'll be able to do the straight stitching

to make this if I can ever get the hang of the 

free motion stuff.....

so far it's:

SEWING MACHINE.....1

justjody......0