Track Lights

Today my dh put in my track lights. I don't have a really good pic of them as the pic looks blurry, but I'll try and take a better one later. I like them , but they are not bright enough using 60 watt bulbs. I will have to most likely put in 100 watt bulbs. I think after that, I will be set to go for lighting. I like the fact you can move them around if you need to.

Yea, not a good pic of them, so I will have to get another one.

Thread Cabinet

I was shopping in a consignment shop one day recently and I came upon this cute little shelf I thought would go perfectly in my room. I will be putting some of my thread in this cabinet. I know all of them won't fit, but that's ok, I'll put some of my best thread in it.
















Sorry the pic is a little blurry, but isn't that the cutest little shelf you ever seen? I can't wait to get it hung up and put my threads in it. It was all brown like the wood, but my DH painted it all red for me, except the inside. I love it!

More FQ's???

Really now.... I must have folded over 100 FQ's this evening. I looked around and here is what I found.

 

This just so happens to be a box of Birthday FQ's from the HGTV Boards. I was in the Birthday Swap in 2006. Still in a box.... boy was I in need of de-cluttering. 5 years is a long time to stay in a box, especially Fabric, right? 

My Fat Quarter Shelf

Well, I had been at my husband about building me a Fat Quarter shelf so I could get the FQ's out of the bins. So yesterday he built me one from my specifications. He told me it was not going to be big enough but for some reason I thought it would be.

Here they are... all primed up! Was trying to decide which colors I wanted to go with in my room, although the other shelf is black and red. 

Well... when I awoke this afternoon after going back to bed (cause I woke up at 6am and had not gone to bed until 2:30) I found my FQ Shelf all painted. He made the decision to paint it like the other one, which is fine.  Here it is, and it has FQ's in it already. Not arranged really good but some are arranged.

Well, I'm on my way to getting my FQ's arranged on a shelf. I took these off the big shelf, but looks like I am going to have to put some FQ's back on that big shelf. This is just too small. Hubby got frustrated with me over this but... How's a girl supposed to know how much FQ's she has when they are in bins? That's why I need shelves now, so I can see them, hehe.

Hoping after all the folding is over I will have enough room to shop for more fabric. I'll just have to be creative in order to store some more, right?

My Messy Quilt Studio and new Table for my Horizon

So now that I have my new machine, I've had a hard time going into my sewing room to sew. I have bins of fabric everywhere, although you won't see the bins in the pictures, I have since then moved them in there as I prepare to fold each one of my FQ's and my yardage into small like books, with the help of Coroplast material. I seen this done by a lady on "The Quilting Board" and since we run a sign shop, it's easily accessible, but I can tell you it is by far the cheapest thing to use. What I do like about it though is it is very sturdy and you can wrap a lot of fabric around them. Here are some pics of my messy room! I hope it's soon organized so I can get in here and sew. I am missing it so much!  Also some pics of my new table.

 

See this 4'x8' Table here in my quilting studio? It's just way too big for my room. See under it? I had so many bins of fabric under this table. I know, you might say, out of site, out of mind, but even if I put a small curtain up there, I would still know what a mess it looked like. And... how aggravating it is to go look for fabric. I need to see what I have :)

This room is a complete mess right now. Cleaned the table off cause I am getting a new table for my Janome Horizon 7700QCP and hoping with the new table being smaller and turned a different way, it will look better in the room. 

One of the messy corners in the room.

So messy I have it even coming out the closets :(

Table is finally cleaned off, getting ready for it to be taken out.

Messy Closet!

Another part of the messy closet. See all those bins I have to go through? Some of it though have T-shirts in them, some have crafting items in them from a festival we did... had alot of things left over.

And more boxes and bins

I even have a soap kettle in here and I don't think I've ever used it yet, lol. I will someday though.

Woo Hoo.... a Table top for my Horizon, in the works :)

Working on the drawers to go in the cabinet of my Sewing Table.

Lots of painting going on here :)

This is the base to my cabinet the drawers are gonna fit in to. 

 

And finally, Ethel has a Table of her own to sit down in :)  Table top is on order.

The new table is turned a different way, I will have room on both sides of this table this time. The measurements on my new table are 3'x6'. See, I already have a mess all over it. It's gonna be like that until I am finished folding fabric.

 

If you look closely you can see some of the fabric which has been folded to look like books on the shelf. Right now I have alot of things on that shelf which are just sitting there until I figure out what I am going to do with everything.

My baby is here :)

Our tax check arrived and my hubby took me to the local Janome dealer and bought me a Horizon 7700 QCP. When it came in, I was so excited!! I unpacked it and couldn't wait to get started viewing the videos. There are many videos on the DVD but there are also some really good ones on the Janome Website, so you are never in the dark as to how to operate the machine, nor how to use the many stitches it came with. Here are some pics of it.

Here it is! Still not even out of the plastic yet. I have named her Ethel after my grandmother who used to sew my clothing. I loved her so much and I miss her very much. She died before I started to sew, so she would have been so honored to know I named my precious machine after her. And... if she were living today, what fun her and I could have had on this machine.
 I'm so happy I have it. I've never owned an expensive machine before. Thank you sweet darling husband for this wonderful machine :)

 

This is the top of the machine. It flips open to reveal all the stitches as well as the thread holder and a compartment for the feet. How neat is that? It has so many many stitches. 

Here is another pic of some of the stitches it has available.

And... the last pic of the remaining stitches.

















Taylor is taking a look at the machine here. YES it's really big Taylor...and so different than my Brother 6000ie which I loved, but didn't have enough quilting space.

Here is a pic of the compartment on the bottom of the machine which holds some more feet. Gotta love it!

I'm getting a new baby!!!

I'm into my 8th year of quilting. It has gotten to the point where I can't do anything but stipple using my 4.5" throat space on my Brother sewing machine. I had gotten so frustrated and had to do some ripping out cause I messed up my quilt. I had told my husband that if this was how it was gonna be, I'd just as soon pay someone to quilt my quilts. So I left the baby quilt lay there, and also a wall hanging I had done on the 1st of Jan.

A few days ago, we had talked about me trying to get another machine. I had tried for a long arm which wasn't all that expensive but due to some things right now that we can't fix, I was unable to get one. I had tried out a Janome 6600 in the LQS and I really loved it. The price was not too bad either. It had all the bells and whistles on it and it had a 9" throat space. That was pretty good space I thought. But over across the room, there was this beautiful Deep Red Machine that I think when I looked at it, it was "Love at first site"! Ever had that happen to you with a machine? After asking the price, I decided , "it was only a dream". Way more expensive than what I could afford. My husband decided to do some checking around on prices other places, for the same machine. He found a place which offered it cheaper than the place we originally seen it at. He took me to the sewing machine dealer and told me to order it. YAY... it will be in, sometime next week and I am thrilled!

Wanna take a look at it? Here is a review from Leah Day on it. She is an absolute awesome quilter. Make sure you check out her 365 Days of designs she did last year.
Leah Day's Review of the Horizon 7700

Here are some other Videos of the Horizon 7700
And...One more from Janome

I'm so excited about getting this machine. I just know it's gonna make quilting so much more easier :)
Well... I'll write more later, once I get the machine home.