Kitty Video

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Cookie was up early on Wednesday (11/3) so Michael took her out, but she still wouldn’t settle down, so I headed to the media room to sleep with her to allow Michael some peace and quiet. The next thing I knew it was 8:45 AM and I was due to SKYPE with Janice in 15 minutes!!! Everything went well (although I bet I looked like the WRECK OF THE HESPERUS to Janice!!) and while we were talking I remembered this binding I had made. I gave a quilt to my friend Connie awhile back, and when I went to bind the quilt....I had forgotten I had already made the binding, and so made a second one out of something else (I have a better system now for knowing whether or not I have binding already made!). Anyway, I wanted to put it in the stack of scraps I have been collecting for Janice, so while we were talking, I wound it up....it looks so pretty:

Anyway, when we were done I jumped in the shower, while Michael loaded my embroidery machine in the car. When I got to Norm’s, we had a long talk about my current, 22 year old machine, and what might happen when he tried to repair it. The end result being….I bought a new embroidery machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He had 2 different machines….one for about $4500 and one for $1800. When I told him what I used my machine for, he said that I would not use or appreciate the expanded capabilities of the more expensive machine, PLUS the footprint on the more expensive machine does not fit what I have available on my table, so he really thought I should get the less expensive one. Also, my current computer software will work with the new machine….YAY!!! It is being shipped from Tennessee and I will go in for a lesson or 2 once it is here. I was home by 2 PM (after a stop at the post office to mail off a gift and at the bank to cash some checks) and it took me another hour and a half to get through my emails and get my blog out. After that I concentrated on re-claiming my backing fabric from the rainbow bargello:

We had Chinese for dinner and I got binding all sewn together from the purple leftovers:

BTW - I'm so glad that I put the rainbow bargello on my to-be-bound pile, and covered it with a piece of muslin to keep the kitty hairs off of it (what the heck is going on under there? at about 1:13 seconds, those big eyes come into view):

*** People who say ‘’go big or go home’’ seriously underestimate my willingness to go home….like…it’s literally my only goal. ***