My new acquisition

My friend Sylvie is a little obsessed with sewing machines (she has several and multiple sergers...). She is always on the lookout on Kijiji and similar sites for machines. She has sent me a couple of ads over the last couple of months, mostly because she convinced me that I must have a machine with needle down (and I agreed after giving her Husqvarna a test run...).

Well, she recently sent me an ad that I had to check out. It sounded like a good deal, and the seller lived practically around the corner from me.

Meet my new Pfaff Tiptronic 1171.



I told my BF I got him a great deal on my birthday present - LOL.

I've had it for well over a week and haven't even had a chance to play with it yet. Tomorrow is the day!

Sewing Limericks

Someone started a thread on PatternReview.com of sewing limericks...I can't resist the opportunity to write a limerick...

There once was girl who could sew
At least that's what she said, but we know
Although much money was spent
On fabric and patterns, not rent
In the end there were no clothes to show!

From the mouths of babes

I turned on Project Runway Canada last night when my 6 year-old daughters were playing in the same room. It was the first time they had seen it and I thought they would want me to change the channel, but they really got into it.

It was the episode where the contestants were designing a dress for supermodel Coco Rocha. There are 5 contestants left at this point: Sunny, Kim, Adejoke, Jessica, and Genevieve. Sunny is the only male designer left. During the runway show, they are making comments like "I can't wait to see it on Coco" and "I love the colour" and "I think that one will win" But the best line was when Sunny's dress is on the runway. One of my daughters says "Wow, for a boy, that is really good". LOL! Girl power!

If you don't watch, Sunny won that challenge...