I finally got my beloved little precious sewing machine baby back from the BERNINA hospital today.  It’s been gone for three (count ‘em, three) weeks and it’s still not completely fixed.  Being away from my machine was worse than any heartbreak I’ve ever gone through, so in its absence, I cut out a million projects that have pattern pieces!  

I’ll stop with the italics when I stop making such profound statements!

I never make something that requires careful pinning and cutting around a pattern piece.  Ick.  But I had all this time on my hands…

First project mission:  completed

I made the Folklore Bag from One-Yard Wonders by Rebecca Yaker and Patricia Hoskins.  Check it out!  Fully-lined with a pocket and!!! a magnetic closure!  I’ve never used a magnetic closure before and my experience was awesome.

I love my bag and I will make the pattern again.  If you make it, just remember to add the interfacing to your top pieces because the pattern omits that step.  That’s all!  

My mom found this note I wrote her circa 20ish years ago?! It was before she got her BERNINA, I know that much!

This is my old sewing machine! A Bernette 60. I purchased it my first term as a freshman at the University of Hawai’i back in 2004. I remember calling my mom, probably my first month in the dorms, and quite miserable because I wanted to sew and didn’t have a machine. My parents bought it in Oregon and shipped it to me because it was still cheaper than buying the same machine in Honolulu. This machine lasted me during my 2.5 years at UH and then for 2 years at UO. It is currently set up at my sister’s and about to be used to do some paper piecing. I love this machine even though it sounds like a freight train.