Miscellaneous Monday

I admit it. I have no shame. I've entered the Bernina Sewing Room Make-over. I'm begging you to vote for me. I've "outgrown" my bedroom sewing room. We have a finished room in our basement that I could use, BUT it needs heating, cooling, lots of lighting and storage. Here is my room:

Here's the link to vote for my room.  My entry is number 403.  You can vote once a day until Thursday. Thanks so very much!!!!!!




Giveaways - Don't miss them!

Linda at Stray Stitches has 2 giveaways in progress. Her birthday giveaway for a fabric bundle ends  Monday, May 30, at 7:00 pm PST and a gorgeous pincushion for the Sew Mama Sew giveaway which ends Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 7:00 a.m. PST. Linda is a phenomenal blogger. Definitely check out her blog.

My friend, Pat from Silver Thimble Quilt Company is celebrating her upcoming book, Spotlight on Neutrals with Martingale Publishing. She is giving away four books published by Martingale. Put her book on your calendar for October. You will want this one:) Her giveaway end this Thursday May 26th at midnight Eastern time.

Jocelyn at Happy Cottage Quilter has a giveaway for some wonderful Denyse Schmidt's new fabric line. Her giveaway ends on Thursday, May 26th. This fabric looks wonderful. You don't really need to go and add your name:)

Edit: 2 additional sites I meant to post.
Gundrun of GE designs has a book hop this week and is giving away copies of her new book. 
Table runners and recipes! Yum!


Visit Sew, Mama, Sew blog for a MANY, MANY, MANY, giveaways. It started today and ends on Wednesday, May 25th. Good luck!

Bernie Goes To School

Bernie, my mechanic Bernina 810, went to school with me today. I actually sewed at school! It was so much fun! In our news show studio, the County had provided enormous backdrops for our new show. They were way too long. I took one home to hem. It was like a huge parachute in my sewing room. It still was too long and I had another one to shorten. It just made more sense to bring my machine to school and work there. It felt so good to do some machine sewing. With this cold/virus/crud still lingering, I come home from work without energy to do anything. The backdrops involved lots of straight sewing - pedal to the medal sewing. What a fun afternoon!

The backdrops look much better. We were having problems with the students stepping on it. We actually had one come down during the morning show. Luckily, the camera was on the other backdrop. We quickly made some adjustments to finish the morning show.