Great Things Come in AQUA!

I fell off the wagon.

I didn’t mean to!

I wasn’t trying to!

I’m not even sure how it happened….

But what good is a wagon if you can’t fall off once in a while?

I just happened to be trolling Etsy. 

Innocent enough?

But I came upon a listing for a sewing machine that just called out my name…..I wasn’t even SEARCHING “Sewing Machine”  I was searching for “Sewing Jewelry”….and well, you never know what a search is going to toss into your browsing path.

When I arrived home from Spokane, TWO boxes were waiting for me….and it is important that there were two.

One box held the machine!  All 47 pounds of her!

Isn’t she a beauty??  I had talked to the owner who had never shipped a machine this heavy before.  I told her of my previous purchases that had arrived with cases smashed to smithereens due to the fact that the machine is, indeed, much heavier than the case or base and it WILL bang around breaking the flimsy wood.

My solution is to remove the machine from the base, and ship the case and base in a second box.  Yes, it costs more for shipping, but all arrived well!

Remove the Spool pins and sewing needle from the machine, and anything else that sticks out that could get broken off from banging around.  She even removed the thread guides and put everything in a baggie so I could reassemble later.

Once the machine was wrapped, she double boxed it, one box inside the other, and filled all remaining spaces with packing peanuts as I had told her to do.  Packing peanuts went EVERYWHERE when I opened the boxes, but that is also a small price to pay for a machine that arrived from Colorado just as it should….WHOLE AND UNBROKEN!

The second box, just as big, but much lighter, held the bubble wrapped case and base that go with the machine. It arrived in perfect condition.

If you are ever having a machine shipped...please ask them to ship in TWO CARTONS and it will cost you more shipping, but you'll be much more happy that you don't have a smashed case due to the weight of the machine.

Isn’t she purty??

Class 15 machine, tensioner to the back left…

I love the class 15 machines ---they have a very sleek look on the front because all of the tension stuff is to the left and behind, out of the way…..no thread bouncing in my sight path!

Check her out – and pardon my froggy voice – allergies are rampant in North Carolina!

Busy day ahead today so I don’t know if I’ll get much time to play with her.

I’m meeting up with a Canadian quilter at 11am – she emailed, said she was driving through and wanted to purchase some books so I will drive over to a meeting place and hand them over – how is that for fun?

I am also leaving for Tuscany early early Saturday morning ---so I’m finalizing the last of our little hands-on workshop that I’ll be teaching to the 40 travelers who are coming with me.  Down to the last minute details here.

As far as Quilt-Cam this week?  Let’s shoot for THURSDAY evening at 9pm EST.  I think I should have my to-do list just about cleared by then and I’ll be anxious to sew!

Have an awesome Tuesday, everyone!


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