I bought something I probably could have gone without...
I went to the Canadian National Exhibition yesterday. (Ow, my feet. Ow, my wallet. Oh, the midway! The kids were great: they're old enough to go on quite a few rides without me, yay!) It's an annual exhibition fair, kind of old-fashioned, in that you have flower contests, appliance exhibits and sales, international pavilions showcasing stuff you'd find around the world, arts and crafts...
Anyway, I found a piano dealer. Played a keyboard that's in glorious tune (compared to my comfortingly sour old Morris upright). Got to talking with the exhibitor. I mentioned my piano's a Morris, with a 5-digit serial number beginning with 105##. Turns out my piano's 100 years old.
Yikes.
I guess I should stop trying to fix it myself with white glue and fishing line, and have a real piano tuner come in to look at it.
Oh, and I put a deposit down on this:
I'm hoping this will be what I need to cut down the sewing time for my very popular fortune cookie novelties. I can break three needles on a single fortune cookie using my Janome RX18S workhorse machine. I don't know how much more abuse it can take... but this one has a foot that feeds beads AND cover-stitches the edge. I've been promised a test-drive before I make the final decision and pay the balance. The exhibition price is locked in until December. I'm going to bring the makings of the fortune cookie. If the sales guy balks at letting me run copper wire through the beading foot, I'm going to get my deposit back.
I'm trading in my Bernette Funlock for an additional discount on the above machine:
It's a great little serging machine, but I want to do cover stitching and combine some sewing and serging functions into one step... and the Janome 1200D was on sale because it's being sold directly by the manufacturer at an exhibition fair, and trading in the Bernette means I get a bit more of a discount. OTOH, if I don't get enough of a discount for the trade-in, and if I still want the 1200D, I'll hang onto the Bernette for my daughter, and she'll be the first 10yo girl in her school to have her own serger, too! :-D
So of course I had to go out and buy a new cabinet to store my sewing machines, to make room in the closet for the fabric, and generally tidy up my sewing space:
Yes, the pictures are getting smaller. :-) Where the TV would go in the big cupboard on top, I'm putting the embroidery machine. The space is just big enough to allow free movement of the hoop. The other sewing machines will fit in the two cabinets below, and I won't be putting in the extra shelves.
Bad Elfie.
Anyway, I found a piano dealer. Played a keyboard that's in glorious tune (compared to my comfortingly sour old Morris upright). Got to talking with the exhibitor. I mentioned my piano's a Morris, with a 5-digit serial number beginning with 105##. Turns out my piano's 100 years old.
Yikes.
I guess I should stop trying to fix it myself with white glue and fishing line, and have a real piano tuner come in to look at it.
Oh, and I put a deposit down on this:
I'm hoping this will be what I need to cut down the sewing time for my very popular fortune cookie novelties. I can break three needles on a single fortune cookie using my Janome RX18S workhorse machine. I don't know how much more abuse it can take... but this one has a foot that feeds beads AND cover-stitches the edge. I've been promised a test-drive before I make the final decision and pay the balance. The exhibition price is locked in until December. I'm going to bring the makings of the fortune cookie. If the sales guy balks at letting me run copper wire through the beading foot, I'm going to get my deposit back.
I'm trading in my Bernette Funlock for an additional discount on the above machine:
It's a great little serging machine, but I want to do cover stitching and combine some sewing and serging functions into one step... and the Janome 1200D was on sale because it's being sold directly by the manufacturer at an exhibition fair, and trading in the Bernette means I get a bit more of a discount. OTOH, if I don't get enough of a discount for the trade-in, and if I still want the 1200D, I'll hang onto the Bernette for my daughter, and she'll be the first 10yo girl in her school to have her own serger, too! :-D
So of course I had to go out and buy a new cabinet to store my sewing machines, to make room in the closet for the fabric, and generally tidy up my sewing space:
Yes, the pictures are getting smaller. :-) Where the TV would go in the big cupboard on top, I'm putting the embroidery machine. The space is just big enough to allow free movement of the hoop. The other sewing machines will fit in the two cabinets below, and I won't be putting in the extra shelves.
Bad Elfie.