Study Hall

I spent yesterday at the quilt store getting to know the Bernina 990. Bernina created a series of workbooks on the sewing, quilting, and embroidery features of that machine. I worked my way through the sewing workbook and started on the embroidery workbook, but will have to go back to finish that one. I don’t mind—I enjoy being in the store. Those workbooks will be good references for class, too.

I’ve played around with machine embroidery enough now that I am itching to get my 700 PRO. We had to order it. In the meantime, I can do embroidery on the 990.

I took the finished Free Range Slacks and the Remy Raglan with me. Becky was working yesterday and she is the exact size of the store samples, so she tried them on. She really liked the Remy Raglan top.

The owner of the store told me that a couple of women who were visiting Kalispell stopped in the other day. Apparently, they listen to the podcast and said they had to come and see the store that I am always talking about on the show. I wish they had left their names or a note!

The husband has a couple of big concrete pours tomorrow so he’s been working a bit later than usual this week. There were leftovers in the fridge and no need for me to cook dinner. When I came home from the store, I cut out a pair of Linda pants from some black stretch cotton, another top out of some rayon woven fabric, and made the neck binding for my Remy Raglan. Those will be on the sewing schedule for today.

I want to make a store sample out of some of the new fabrics arriving at the store. I really like this pattern:

I think that blue version with the asymmetric tiers is lovely. I am very much missing Joann Fabrics now. Hobby Lobby doesn’t carry Butterick patterns, so if I want to make this one, I’ll have to order it. Ugh. First world problems.

This morning, though, I need to get out and cut the grass, at least in the garden. All that rain is making everything grow. It looks like we’re in for a stretch of warm and dry weather—low to mid 80s—for the next week.