Quickie Update: It's home!
Let's all welcome the new addition to the family! I just finished my layaway, and got to play with it at my sewing club tonight.
I think it's a "he", but we haven't really come to know each other very well. I can already catch glimpses of attitude - as in: "Fine, you think you know what needs to happen to make this buttonhole? We'll give you the buttonhole you want me to make, how's that? Okay, you didn't like that? Uh-huh, now let those with the needles do the sewing, got it? Good. Try again. There: a PERFECT buttonhole."
I like it.