Crawling back to the green machine

So here it is, my first real post on the new blog...I have brought a few recent posts over from the old blog for a little back story for my new readers, wherever you are. I decided to make my old blog private. It is full of over 2 years of my whining, and I am excited to put that behind me. Part of me wants you to read it all; know the whole story, but part of me wants to keep it private. Now that I am about to open my Etsy shop, I will hopefully attract new traffic to the blog, and I want the new people to see the better side of me.

Ha, I'm sure the bitter, cynical side of me will shine through sooner than later.

I started a new quilt a couple of days ago, but I have not photographed it yet. I finished the top, and I must say that the colors are a little brighter than I'm used to, but I'm okay with how it is going so far. I'm still working on the patchy blue quilt. I've been quilting by hand, which takes forever, but I really like doing it. I quilt for a couple of hours in front of my stories every night. It is similar to knitting for me. Relaxing, slow, and perfect for watching crime dramas.

I had planned on opening the shop this week, but I'm not positive I'm ready. I have a few more things to finish up before they are ready to list, but I'm close! I am excited, nervous and overwhelmed with it all! I still have to figure out how tax crap works, but after that, the business side is done. For now.

Saturday I went to Atlanta. It was a beautiful day with low humidity and not too hot. I went to the fabric store for some things. I picked up my machine from the repair center. I got a Singer Curvy in October '08 when I first started making quilts. I started having trouble with the bottom tension, and I spent more time messing with it than I did actually sewing. So after I moved back to Birmingham, I started using my mom's avocado green machine from the '70's. That thing is a tank. I use and abuse, and it performs like a champ. I finally took the new machine to the warranty center, and they, at first, insisted that nothing was wrong with it. They said the problem is my thread, the problem is my fabric, the problem is my stitch length, the problem is that I'm stupid. Finally I convinced them to just service the machine, and 2 weeks later, they say that the problem was lint under the bobbin case and that I had dropped some pins in there and that some of the parts had to be buffed because of the damage done by the pins. So maybe I am stupid....I brought the repaired machine home, I packed up the green machine, got set up, and started to sew. But wait, now there is a problem with the top tension! I messed with the machine for an hour and gave up, crawling back to the green machine.

Fact: Everything old is better than everything new.