you probably guessed that |I have found it, doh!

If you are refering to http://www.justhands-on.tv I checked with them about a forum/chatroom and Jenny let me know that they are planning to get the full grownup version going in July. So I guess that we will just have to contain ourselves in patience.

yours in the cause
Rosemary

Down a bit.

[url]forum/index[/url]

Ok,but where is it, I couldn't find it!!!!!

Will reply in our new, UK home!!

well, SNAP Amanda, I don't have a contents page in my 630 manual, seems like a contents fairy has pinched them all,
and SNAP again, I spent today sewing a Hoffman batik jelly roll, made 40 blocks, just simple rail fence, will email the pics. havent decided yet how to put them together!!!!
Lynn

That sounds like a good day Lynn!!

Have I started sewing yet? Weeeeeel.... it goes like this. I've been really inspired by some art quilts I've been seeing. I think at the moment, after years of having to make more traditional stuff I can't get that going at the moment, past life and all. SO! I've had a look around on line and found a couple of places that do workshops nearish to me and I've signed up for a few. I wanted to make a case for my cutting rulers, cutters and scissors to take with me on the courses and after a bit of a thunk I've pieced together a Moda jelly roll I just couldn't think of what to do with and now I'm playing on it before I make it up into cases.

I'm certainly learning my way around the machine! I can pattern start and pattern finish without thinking about it. I know how to slow the motor down, adjust the tensions, which tensions are better on which threads, sit the bobbin case in quite easily without looking and, most important, learned how useless the manual is without a decent contents page (Bernina, if you reading, it really is dire, please pull your finger out)!!!

Bob the Bernina and I are bonding.

Well, Lynn, we could have put your skills to good use at my school today.

I'm glad yu have enjoyed your bonus day.

Lorchen

LMAO!!!!!!!! Thats if you know what that means, in case not,
I totally agree, went to work today on supply, when I got there they didn't need me, so went home and sewed! How cool is that, and it was even better as didn't feel guilty about not working!!!!! So, ARE YOU SEWING YET?????? I cannot decide whether to start new quilt, have some good batiks for finish an African style quilt that I started at a workshop over a year ago!!!!
Lynn

It's a different body position You have to leave the sewing machine on a regular basis to relieve the tension build up in your shoulders. You can roll your shoulders while using a mouse and surfing the net. When you start tensing up from that, go back to the sewing machine position.

WARNING!! It is highly inadvisable to interrupt this routine with anything like the risky Vacuum Cleaner Manoeuvre, the highly unpredictable Ironing of the Sheets and of course the possible allergy causing Dussssting.

Thanks Amo, also, I checked out that site, it looks like it could be interesting when they really get going. I made a bag with the japanese fabrics, I have posted some more photos on my profile so you can check them out, when you have nothing better to do. But there is a problem with the new site, by the time we finish looking at that and all the other sites, there will be no time to sew!!!

Lynn

Not good about the interview Lynn! There’s something better out there somewhere though.

I saw the Japanese fabric and they have done some lovely stuff with it. You have to have a good eye with it though or I think the colour can be a bit muddy. I keep trying to think of something for the ones I have and nothing has sprung to mind yet. I’m sure it will in time though.

Thanks for the hints re the York museum Pam and Posy. I think I could fit it in, I keep meaning to visit York anyway. Not Quite Son in Law’s parents live there so.......

And thank you for my house point too. That website is so new it’s still squeaking and there is hopefully going to be a bit of an expansion over the summer months. These things don’t grow well without a bit of an audience so keep visiting!!! (And I'm doing a Jennie Rayment workshop soon too )

I agree the quilt museum in York is great, and it is local for me

The Quilters guild has made a copy ot the 1718 quilt, which I understand to have been very challanging, so that the copy can be on show whilst the original is kept safe and only brought out for high days and holidays. Unfortunately the co-ordinator Pauline Adams, has not brought out a book of their research, experiences and patterns (when I asked in February) which I for one would love to buy. It could become a UK 'Dear Jane'. Maybe if enough people asked for one, it might be written

yours in the cause

Rosemary

P.S. to Amoret - Brilliant find, have a house point and go to the top of the class

Bad luck on the job Lynn, but at least you did get to malvern. I saw all the Japanese woven fabrics and bought a half metre piece for a bag, but I could have bought a lot more, they were gorgeous. I particularly loved the block of the month that Antique Angel are doing with them, but I couldn't justify the overall cost, so I bought a pin cushion kit . Look at http://www.antiqueangel.co.uk/cart/product_info.php?itemID=18&item_name=Antique_Flower_Garden_BOM_incl_Post_within_EUROPE&SES=518e7dc4bbe99f0d763c2822866d8dc4 if you want to be tempted!