Hi Ruth!
-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Wendy Buchanan <=-
 RH> Seems the machine has a temperament of its' own, right?
 
You can say that again...but I think it is MY temperament that
is the real problem, Ruth.  Anyone but me can use that machine
and not have a bit of trouble with it.
 RH> Knowing the way I operate, I would have just cut something out free
 RH> hand, sometimes those patterns are more bother than they'reworth.
Oh, that's what I did, but I had a struggle with that till i got
one of my hubby's socks and eyeballed it first.    I just do
not have the kind of mind that pictures shapes correctly.  
 
 RH> Of course; Steve loved the vest & tie I did for him using the computer
 RH> bug fabric I found in the Keepsake catalog.  He had no idea that the
 RH> fabric I bought the day after Thanksgiving was for a Christmas project
 RH> for him. (G)
I saw that fabric and I loved it!  I was tempted but let it go by.
Now i wish I hadn't!
Tom surprised me this year, with a new CD-Rom drive and sound card.
Thought he bought them for himself!    They aren't working though.
He says since they work together he can't tell which one isn't happy.
Eventually he will figure out which it is.  
 
 RH> That's about the time I walk away from the machine, clear my head for
 RH> a few hours and come back to it.  Saves getting the urge to pitch the
 RH> machine.
I didn't have that kind of time that day and I was determined to
get that silly stocking done!  Finally persevered...with some
help from the best source available!  :)
 
 RH> Yep, and you know, He's never wrong.
I know.  Wish I wasn't so stubborn and full of pride...I'd have
asked Him first!  hehe
 
 RH> I'm glad everything worked out.  Deborah (our younger daughter) had
 RH> Christmas in Edmund; after all her fussing about needing snow clothes,
 RH> they didn't have any of the white stuff and we did.
 
We didn't either.  I was just as glad, as Tom's sis won't come for
the holiday if it's snowy out, or icy.
 WB> ... Every time I go near my sewing machine, it laughs at me!
 RH> I think mine says "Again? Can't you leave me alone?" (G)
Tell it you'll let it nap at night while you are sleeping, and that
is all it gets!  
LadyBear Hugs,
Wendy
... Noah's Ark--the original Love Boat.
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