Life's Little Junkets: May 2014

As I was finishing my niece's quilt back in early April, my Bernina 750QE locked up while I was cleaning the thread catcher and was giving me this weird screen whenever I restarted the machine. After taking it to my dealer, they consulted with Bernina USA, who wanted to see it in person, so my beloved Bernie went to Chicago. Nearly 2 months later, and apparently waiting for a part to come over on a boat from Switzerland, Bernie returned home!

Besides taking my last Mastery Class on a loaner machine, I hadn't sewn since I finished the quilt in early April. I decided a small project would be good to get my feet wet on, so I made my first zippered pouch! I used the popular Noodlehead tutorial and some scraps from Sophie's quilt. It took me a few hours, and I was nervous about the zipper, but I did a very respectable job on it.

Now I feel an addiction coming on. I have lots of scraps and just ordered some colorful zippers from Zipit on Etsy.

I just wanted to mention that Massdrop has a deal on Liberty fat quarter bundles in the next few days. I learned about Massdrop a couple of months ago from another blog and had just missed a Liberty fabric bundle offering. I signed up for the site and even voted for some potential offerings and a couple of days ago I received an email that they had Liberty bundles (2 different options of 10 fat quarters). The price starts at $85.99, but will drop more if they get 20 or 30 people to commit to the buy. Currently, they just need 9 more to hit the lowest price of $78.99. You can upgrade to half-yards, too. They also have an offering for six various neutral spools of Aurifil that now has enough commitments to get the lowest price of $45.99. I'm waffling on that one as I've bought quite a bit of fabric lately for a quilt project, but it looks like that one is a good deal, too. These offerings are for a limited number of days, so I wanted to share this info with others who might be interested.