Cotton in the dryer? Yep!

It was a wonderful day for dyeing. The sun was bright, still a bit chilly, but all the same it was sunny which can put anyone in a good mood.

I love to play around with dyeing and wanted to try my hand at yet another technique. I actually got a more consistent color dyeing the yarn in cups in small amounts of 120 yard lenghs. I just hate the wait...it drives me crazy because I want to see the end results. But I patiently waited, just walk away, just walk away I had to tell myself. Two hours later and many rinses later.... I had the colors in the yarn, now I had to wait for this stuff to dry! Are you kidding me, LORD! More waiting? OK, I couldn't wait any longer and just had to see what this stuff was going to look like dry....I threw all that cotton in the dryer! LOL....yep, right into the dryer! LOL It came out fluffy and wonderful! I spun that yarn around my yarn winder and it was perfect.

So what do you think? Hope you like it.

Happy Crafting! T

The Sewing Expo Update is in....

I had a blast this weekend. The Expo was packed with tons of ladies buying lots and lots of items. Of course I ran into about four of my guild members enjoying the Expo as well. There was a small wall section of "invitation" only quilters and the only one I recognized was Laura Wasiloski. She is well known for her fusing quilts. The others quilts were nice and a breath of inspiration as well. I would have pictures but was threatened not to take them from all the signs around.

Back to the booths....on a quest to see what new sewing machines there were, I stopped in all the major ones at the show. They all were mainly selling their embroidery machines, geez! I only need a basic! But, what I did find interesting was this serger by Baby Lock. It was awesome. For those who have dinosaurs, and I am talking back in the late 80's possibly, the darn thing is a pain to thread the two bottom threads the whole nine yards. This one I looked at, you stick the two bottom threads into two separate holes each and push this lever and BAM! your bottom needles are threaded by a force of air. It was amazing! I was like "I have to have one", then she told me the cost was $799 and that was the show special....I was floored. My dream crushed and stomped on right there in the Baby lock booth! Oh well so much for a dream! I observed slow booths and some were busier then ever. My favorite booth to venture every time I visit is the Vogue Fabrics booth. They always have an array of high quality fabrics for great prices as well as discounted quilting books, threads, patterns and other items. They always have a good quality Linen, so of course I had to get some more for my collection as wel as purchased some wool roving.

Hopefully those who travel from a far and near enjoyed their time this past weekend and look forward to seeing you next year! Signing out T

SOOOoooo Excited!

For those who live in the greater Atlanta area, this weekend is the Sewing & Quilt Expo March 11-13th and you guessed it, I will be front and center this weekend. I think it is an addiction for those who love to sew. There will be vendors galore and I can't wait to see the new items that are available for sewers this year. I really would love to get a (yet another!)sewing machine, and I keep threatening my Janome which is just a basic machine I use for sewing simple things that I am going to get rid of him if he doesn't stop eating the edges of my fabric. But then he stops and starts behaving like he should. Some of the machines that I have seen are really out of my price range, but I guess it is what you want to do with your machine that counts. I also think it is really what you make of your machine. I just haven't justified having to buy a embroidery machine that costs in the thousands of dollar range. But I have seen wonderful stuff out there. Again, it's what you want to do with it.

Well I am off to be productive and hope you are doing the same. Stay posted, I will have pictures of my adventures this weekend.