a mighty shopping spree … or should that be mega!

I know I said I hate machine quilting and I know I’ve whinged about it before and I know I’ve confessed undying love for big stitch, perle cotton, hand quilting - which I do love! - but do you know what?  It’s slow and I have umpteen quilt tops folded up and shoved here and there and I need to quilt.  And quilt nicely.  And this will happen if I practice … and get a new machine.

Now Amy and Jessica swear by their Berninas but they’re just a little, I mean lots, out of my price range. Of course, I would really like a quilter like Patti’s Gandalf but that is DEFINITELY out of price range, not to mention, I would need to move our bed in order to accomodate this amazing machine.  Instead, after months of looking, I have decided on a …

Husqvarna/Pfaff Mega Quilter!  It has a really wide throat, a super big table, it’s a super heavy industrial style machine and can be bolted into a contraption that looks a bit like an illustration out of a 19th century neurological surgery textbook.  But given adding this to our already small living area, i.e. our bedroom, would also involve losing the bed, I just settled for the machine for now.

So this morning, Nanny, Grandad and I went down to the local dealership/ patchwork store and boy golly - I bought one!    

[ look how happy Nanny looks!  Mind you that may be just vicarious happiness as she established how many quilt tops SHE has for me to quilt! }

It was however, too nice a day to sit inside and finish the engineering degree required to thread it, so after loading this mega wonderful sewing machine into the boot of the car, we headed down to the lighthouse for fish and chips by the seaside and it was glorious.

The sky was so blue, the sun so warm, the cafe so fresh and yummy and the company so good.  What more could one ask for …

Check out this sincere little robot we found inside the main door of the cafe.  Don’t you just think that it is earnestly looking up to Grandad, asking whether he prefers the red of the green.

Neither thank you, says Grandad, we’re having whiting and chips and potato scallops.  Oh and look, we both filled our pockets with salt!

            

It was a beautiful day and I am such a wonderfully lucky woman to be able to share my Thursdays with my Nanny and Grandad.  Let alone have a new Husqvarna Mega Quilter.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

 

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