What are you?

I just got done reading this blog on Selfish seamstress and was total in agreement with her about knock offs being sold as peoples own creations and they are obviously from a pattern!

The other day I was thinking what am I really I am not a designer (making patterns aggravates me, I can not sit still long enough to enjoy digitizing). I find inspiration in my patterns and color and when I see someone wearing something that is perfect. Don't get me wrong when I grow up I would love to learn how to do all of those things but with 5 kids still at home my patience is way to thin. I do have one pattern I have made but it is custom to my husbands body I suppose I could make it work for someone else if  I wanted or had the time.

Anyways I was talking about it with Dave aka husband and in that talk we have Decided I am your personal seamstress, Embroidery person. LOL

Just because we can sew well and understand construction of a garment, and techniques does not make us a designer. As I see myself we can run a machine and build something, and we can finish it. That is what I am good at.

So when you think about what you are what do you call yourself?

My favorite Machines

WOW today I was sitting here thinking I miss my old Kenmore and wished he had not gotten so expensive to fix I called him Kenny! Don't ask me why he was a he instead of a she like we like we all call our favorite machines by female names but he was Kenny and I learned to sew on him.

That lead me thinking when I went and picked up my machine the other day at the bernina shop and there were 3 other ladies in there picking theres up and I mentioned I just call her Little Girl because I have 6 girls and have run out of girl names and they looked at me like I was crazy or naming her and I asked them if they had names for theres and they said um no never thought about it.

On the drive home I kept thinking wow not name your machine do they not love them do they not die to use them everyday, are they not there best friends and then I thought you know probably not. (Or I am just crazy)



I learned to sew out of dire need for my 4 oldest girls. I was in my early 20's layed off from work again and school was going to start and my oldest was going to kindergarten and I wanted her to look sooooo cute!
That is a whole other blog tho lol .

Any way back to my though.........These ladies can afford a new bernina every few years and they had the nicest Embroidery Machines money can buy. So I figure because they did not want for much when it comes to sewing they do not get attatched to them like I would. I guess that my dire need threw me into the passion of creating and sewing and a sewing machine attached to my hip. From then on I bought every sewing machine I could get my hands on the older the more I loved.



Then a few years later I opend a shop in town and did any kind of sewing they brought me. And then one horrible day Kenny jumped time and I took him to the shop to get worked on and they called me with a quote a few days later and it was crazy he had all kinds of parts that had to be replaced and so that dreaded day came when I had to find a new machine.

 My mom who was my silent partner took me to a phaff dealer I protested the whole way saying I can not afford one of them. So we get there and I am looking around at all of these machines that say 3,000.00 to 7,000.00 and I wanted to hide in the corner thinking I do not belong here and my friend and client who I sewed most of her cloths for "because she was a quilter not a seamstress" she said, walked over to me and said I have the perfect machine for you Tracy and we walked over to this stripped down non fancy machine and I smiled it had a walking foot only a few necessary stitches and she told me it would sew 6 layers of denim. I tried her out and I fell in love right away, needless to say I walked out the door buying my first none thrift store, brand new sewing machine a Phaff freestyle limited edition and did not spend more then 600 for her. Which I still have and all my girls have learned to sew on Penny.

Now you ask if you are so penny pinching and price crazy how and why did you get a Bernina well that was totally by accident. My mom bought 3 on eBay they are artista 180e's they are old and they are by no means cheap even on eBay but once again thanks to my mom I have another best friend, I use her 16 hours a day most days and I love her and no matter how much it cost  to fix Little Girl will get fixed.

Thank you Mom and Leonard for making me find my passion and teaching me what I do know and believing in  me.

• So I was wondering if anyone else names there machines and if so what do you name them. Or am  i the only crazy one?
• Do you die to use your machines and if so how often?

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Just found and old friend he is worth checking out

If you knew rob you would love him! I worked with him as my foreman for many months and have known him for a long time he is a very special kind and intelligent man. He is a motivational speaker coach and writer. (unlike me) We butted heads at work but off the job we are great. He told my husband David he is so glad I started my own business because I am to free of a thinker and did not fit in the construction field and you know he is so right! I do not need to be told what needs to be done I am self motivated and a self starter. Which we all know in construction they do not like they like to micromanage you (which would make me feel like I was in high school all over again ughhh) Ok enough with the rambling if you want to hear or see more about robert here is his web page it is a must see and hear!
http://www.cowboy-wisdom.com/index.html

What did i do? LOL

Ok who's bright idea was it to teach 3 young teen girls how to sew at the same time while working?
     

I have 3 girls left at home and all three want to learn something new in sewing. One who is 11 wants to learn how to put buttons on two that are 16 and yes identical twins want to make there own cloths. Trying to convince them to start simple with a skit or shorts and a simple blouse was not going to happen! One ended up wanting to do the braided tank from burda styles and the other one wants to make a spaghetti string top with two layers and a skort.  by the end of the night I was pulling my hair out the skort we had was to small so we had to alter the pattern to fit her and the braided tank now has to have angle wing embroidery and a decorative straps instead of the braid! and the buttons well they are mastered I think LOL we will see if she can stay focused and finish all the finger-less gloves and shoe-less sandles we have made. We will post some picks of our progress tomorrow after we enjoy our day with dad when he comes home from working on the other side of the mountains!

My Machine

     Ok this is my first attempt at this and so i have decided to talk about my embroidery machine which has become my best friend. I have found it to be a whole new lease on my creative expression. It is a older 180 artista bernina but it does all the same things as the new machines just in black and white and I will Never get rid of her no matter how much it cost!
     Speaking of cost it just came back from the big shop back east somewhere from being totally over hauled! She is like brand new now. That cost 630.00. The poor lady at the counter says to me before I Charge your card lets talk about a new machine. I said" shhhhh that is a sin she will hear you! And I just did buy a new machine or 600.00 not 4000.00" All she could do was laugh and say well thank you for being such a loyal Bernina customer. I will take some pictures of all of my machines and add them soon. I have a whole list of disscussions too that I would love feed back on once I get them finalized and loaded
Have a great day everyone