So much time has past since my first post.  Promise to myself that I will find and make time to share projects that I have been working on. 

Since the last post I have gotten interested in using an embroidery machine.  My inspiration for the embroidery came from my sister Shirley who had been making a few really cute things with her machine.  She loved it so much that she was able to upgrade her  12 year old machine to a newer one and passed her old one, a Brother PE-150  to my sister Kaye and myself to see if we would have any interest.   At first the machine was housed at Kaye's home (we live in the same neighborhood).  A

fter purchasing a longarm quilting machine that took up quite a bit of space in her sewing studio she decided that the old embroidery machine could stay at my house for a while.  After all she was not using it and that would give me a chance to play around with it since finding time to get together to sew was limited.   Oh my,  I did get a chance to play around with it and I fell in love with a new sewing medium.  "MACHINE EMBROIDERY". Oh the artful possibility of making cute outfits for the grandkids and using it to put redwork blocks into a quilt.  After making a few samples and getting use to the process of the embroidery machine I decided that maybe I would like to upgrade to a new machine. After doing some research on what I wanted and pricing I decided on a Brother PE-770.

 I love Sunbonnet Sue and found her in Christmas redwork on one of the many online embroidery pattern sites.  Pictured below  was my first big project.   The pattern selections on the embroidery sites are so inspiring and I already have many future projects lined up in my head that I can't wait to get started on.