I saw one of these machines on Ebay last week and the bidding was up around £250 pounds which is not far off what my Mum paid when she bought it for my 18th birthday.As I was sat at my Janome sewing machine at the dining table this evening I happened to look up and out of the front window.
This is what I saw. I happened to have the camera handy so I took photos - sunset on the longest day
Unfortunately the photo doesn't do justice to the colours which were deeper.
Look at all the vapour trails left by aircraft. That's what you get when you don't live far from a major airport.I won this magazine on Ebay last week.
I fell in love with this little table topper.
So on Friday I went to my LQS and bought some FQs, cut what I needed to and got sewing. I didn't do any more until today. I thought I was doing really well until I was putting the first border on when I realised I had attached the flying geese patches the wrong way round and ended up with this!
I decided that it still looked OK and as I am going to give it as a gift to a non quilter it probably won't matter too much. I am going to cut for another one and get it right next time. I have learnt quite a lot from doing this (other than getting your flying geese units the right way round). You start off with 1 & a quarter inch strips and they are fiddly and quite hard to get right. I need to be more accurate when I cut & sew them next time.
I am still reasonably happy with it even though it isn't correct because I love the colours and I think it still works.
