Play Date

Yesterday an on-line, sewing friend came over to play. The proposed purpose was to help me out with my serger - she has a very similar one, just the next newest model. And we've actually met a couple of times before when we both worked in Crystal City we'd have lunch occasionally. But yesterday she drove up to my house and we hung out in my sewing room. And talked and chatted. It was great to talk sewing with someone who's eyes didn't glaze over and knew that a blind hem didn't get you a tax deduction (oh, yeah, I've been finishing up taxes, too). And we did get around to setting up the sergers. She ran through how to set it up to cover stitch and chain stitch. And then I undid them a couple of times and redid them. I think I've got it down now and can get more out of my machine. It was a grand old time and no one ran with scissors. And in other serger news, I discovered a box in my garage late last night as I closed my garage door. Left by my mail man who brought it up the driveway and just dumped it there - that's what he does when something is too large for my box, just lays it somewhere in or near the garage (I've wondered if he's afraid of my dog?). Anyhoo.... it was the manual and technique book that came with/was purchased for MY SERGER! Yes, friends, it has surfaced and arrived at my house. So it has been a very sergical weekend. I've also been working on the free Viking project for March. I've gotten all the embroideries done, trimmed the blocks and have the strips in place between the blocks. I'll get the rest done today and on the table. The embroideries stitched out very nicely. It's a fun and pretty quick project after you get the embroideries stitched out - there are 4 of them and each of them takes about 20 minutes to stitch. Well, that's all for now - happy Sunday, spring is on it's way! And blogger is acting really oddly - it won't paragraph. So sorry about the run-on style. Grrrr!