Good evening all,

I'm getting tired of blogger not working but tonight I figured I'd see if they had fixed the problem. Before I tried to post I changed to Yahoo! instead of Google. 

I can now upload my old way.

I'm not sure if blogger corrected the problem or it just works with Yahoo!

Here is a picture I took a couple of weeks ago of my Easy Street Mystery Quilt from Bonnie Hunter at Quiltville. I had one set of the blocks, the corner triangles and setting triangles finished and was working on the second set of blocks when I took this picture. I now have all the blocks finished and ready to start sewing all the blocks together. I planned on working on that tonight but haven't gotten in the mood to lay it all out.

In cross stitch, I finished Q is for Quilter right after the first of the year. I had already stitched R is for Rabbit so now I'm working on S is for Sewing.

The last 2 Saturdays Steve and I spent the day at antique shops and flea markets. I didn't buy much but we did see several nice vintage quilts and a few vintage sewing machines. I did purchase this one.

Her name is Clara.

$29.00 at an antique mall plus 25% off.  It is a Singer that uses the long bobbins so I knew it was really old.  I don't have a machine that uses the long bobbins so I'm very excited to have it.  It was really clean and after getting it home I cleaned it a little more and oiled it. Figured out how to thread it. At first when I tried to sew, I had a very nice birds nest on the back. But after adjusting the tension I have it working perfect. I think someone must have turned the tension knob about 20 times. It was way off. Here's a picture of a long bobbin with red thread in the bobbin winder.

It also came with several long bobbins and an extra shuttle.

After getting it up and running I went on the Singer website to look up the serial number. It turns out, it was manufactured in 1894. 118 years old and sewing like a brand new one. I've been thinking since I own it now, who was the original owner? What was she like? Where did she live? How many owners has this machine had?Where has it been and the stories it could tell.

She now joins Eleanor. Mom's American Home manufactured Jan. 22 1962.

I need to take pictures of my other machines and post them. Maybe I'll do that next time.

I think this bring me to 10 machines. Plus my serger and long arm.

Until next time,

Deana

Well, I just love it when things don't go as planned. I was going to post what's going on in my life the other day when I could not upload pictures from my computer on Blogger. After trying to figure out what I was doing wrong I did a search and found out it was Blogger not me. Blogger posted that they are aware of the issue and is trying to fix it. So tonight is my second attempt and still can't upload pics the old, much easier way. Blogger says to use the HTML. Let see what I get..... Ok, that was taking forever...so I am going to try one more time!

Ok, that went better. Still took two minutes. Yes, I timed it. This is one of the quilting books I received for Christmas. It was a very quilty Christmas this year and I loved everything I received. This book had been on my list since last year. It's all foundation piecing and after taking the pineapple table runner class last year, I found out that I loved piecing that away. It's so easy and when your finished it looks like you worked very hard.

Here's a book that I had not seen. Angie gave it to me along with the Kalidascope book and another one (if I can get the picture to load)it wouldn't before. It's been an hour now since I started this post and have managed to upload 2 pictures. After trying 3 others multiple times, I give up! I will post more pictures when and if Blogger gets this mess fixed. I also received a quilting book that is called Simply Triangles. It looks like it will be a fun one. Then tucked in my stocking was a Scrap Quilts magazine. Sabrina gave me a couple of tote bags from Thirty One. This large one I had picked out back in the summer when she was having a book party. I forgot about ordering it so this was a nice surprise. She had my initials monogramed on it which is something I wouldn't have paid to have done.

Pictures are loading better now. Let's cross our fingers. Sabrina also gave me this smaller bag from Thirty One. The large one will be nice for toting all my stuff to class and the littler one will be great for keeping all those small quilty items in order.

Steve gave me a Rowenta Travel Iron. I know an iron isn't something most women would want for Christmas but I've been wanting this for quit some time. I just couldn't justify buying it with already having 2 Oreck irons. But this little iron is so light weight. I love it. For now this is all I can post. Blogger is driving me nuts. Now it won't load again. See you later, I'm gonna go fix a drink! Deana