My New Machine!

Ok, so new is relative... I finally got around to sewing today on my new machine... aka the one I got for Christmas this past year. Isn't that terrible!?! In my defense, I got it less than a month after DS was born, had a rough time with feedings etc (pumping almost everything until he was 6 months), then a busy photography season straight through until about a month ago. I've been meaning to work with it forever! The big thing is that if I decide I want to upgrade it by the one year mark of having purchased it, we can apply the price of this machine to the cost of a new one. My parents were the generous benefactors (aka Christmas gift purchasers) and want to make sure this machine (a 3/4 machine if you've ever heard of that) is just what I need and want, and want to upgrade it for this year's Christmas gift if I so choose. So you see, there is a deadline on this.

As DH was leaving this morning, I told him I had every plan to sew today! The machine was coming out of it's box (oh yeah, the other hard part is that there isn't anywhere for it to live. When I want to sew it comes out onto our kitchen table ~ you know... where everything else happens.) :) And so (or should I say sew) it did... as soon as DS was down for his morning nap (and he's still down by the way), I scooted around taking care of a few last minute things, then out it came.

Really I had no idea what I was going to sew... I have tons to sew, but nothing ready... but I was determined to sew something. I opened up the remaining sewing stuff (after my "scream... we're having a baby and don't have anywhere to put him" purging frenzie), which is stored in a bin under our bed, and there it was. My great grand mother had given me a somewhat started quilt years ago and I had never done anything to it. I had never taken its parts out of the bag to see what I actually had to work with. Today I did. There were 3 or 4 blocks done, several blocks ready to be put together, and the rest of the fabric ready. I sewed, I cut, I sewed some more (with all the ironing that goes with all that of course) and tada!
It's just the top, and I don't know whether I will do a border before binding, but I did sew! Perhaps it will make a fun spring table covering, or a gift for something. :)