Saturday, 16 March 2013

A Day of Two Halves - The good and the bad

My day began well. I met up with other sewists for the first meeting of the East Midlands Modern Quilt Guild. There were ten of us from across the East Midlands. We met in a pub on the edge of Nottingham for coffee (or tea) and cake as we started our inaugural meeting.  Moira has been instrumental in getting this venture off the ground so it was very easy to vote on who we would like to be our president. Moira is now officially our leader! Yay! If you live in the East Midlands and would like to join us then this is our Flickr site.

EMMQG with Moira on the left (Chief quilter/Extraordinary Leader)


Trudi's quilt being used!
I then went onto Grantham to visit Stitchcraft with Trudi. It was nice to have a little gleek at all the lovely fabric. When I got home the men were watching the rugby so I thought that I would do a little more quilting of this quilt. 


Disaster has struck though. My feed dogs are stuck in the down position and no amount of tinkering has helped get the mechanism to work again. I was getting really hot and bothered as I am doing a sewing course next week and I need to take my machine  up to Cumbria with me. My lovely hubby encouraged me to phone the man who mends sewing machines at 7.30pm tonight. After a complicated and long winded discussion, my machine will be left in his caravan tomorrow (it is a sort of postbox for sewing machines) and hopefully I can collect it on Tuesday, just in time for my journey north!!! So in the end, the problem is on the way to being solved. It just means that my quilt won't be finished this weekend.

Instead of sewing tonight, I have decided to have a bit of a swat up on what to use once Google Reader goes. I have decided to follow the crowd and move to Bloglovin'. If you want to follow this blog in Bloglovin' the link is here...


I have no idea if the link works, so if you try it, would you let me know if you were successful. Cheers!

Enjoy St Patrick's day tomorrow. We are partying with the local Irish exiles!

Di x




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20 comments:

  1. moira16 March 2013 at 22:55

    boo to the feed dogs! By the way I would like to be known as your Extraordinary Leader, I thank you.

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  2. Canadian Abroad16 March 2013 at 23:07

    So hope your machine gets fixed in time.

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  3. Trudi16 March 2013 at 23:13

    How extraordinary! Lol

    T'was a good day, do you want to borrow my Bernie?

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  4. dutchcomfort17 March 2013 at 06:20

    Already following you through bloglovin!! The link though doesn’t seem to work. And I really hope your sewing machine will be fixed!

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  5. mammafairy17 March 2013 at 08:08

    Well done all of you for getting the EMMQG off the ground between you. Good luck getting that machine sorted.

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  6. Catherine17 March 2013 at 08:44

    Sounds like another great day out. What sewing course are you doing and where?

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  7. Annabella17 March 2013 at 09:15

    Boo to the stuck feed dogs - hope you get the machine sorted in time. Very envious of your quilt guild!

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  8. heart of charnwood17 March 2013 at 09:31

    It was lovely to meet at the guild after we've been chatting for ages! Best of Luck with the magic sewing machine fixing caravan man!!! :o)

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  9. Judith, Belfast17 March 2013 at 11:00

    Happy St. Pats! You must be the most well connected and socialised sewing blogger I know!! Hope your machine feels better soon! Jxo

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  10. Sarah17 March 2013 at 13:39

    Sounds like the EMMQG got off to a fun start. Sorry you machine didn't play ball yesterday but hope the magic fixer man can get it back to health for your course next week. What will you be learning on your course?

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  11. Gertie Pye17 March 2013 at 14:02

    My feed dogs were stuck down once and the guy in the sewing shop just did one stitch with them and they popped back up automatically! So embarrassing...

    Great to see the EMMQG up and running - will keep an eye on your Flickr site to see what lovely stuff you all come up with x

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  12. Isisjem17 March 2013 at 14:18

    Wow somewhere like Grantham has a sewing/fabric shop!?

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  13. Wendy17 March 2013 at 17:49

    Hello, I've found you! I couldn't find your blog before, but I got it through Liz. Please remind me not to let you take photos of me again, I'm so unphotogenic it's unbelievable! The quilt is looking lovely.

    I also had that problem with feed dogs, they pop back up if you start sewing...

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  14. Sheila17 March 2013 at 20:21

    The feed dogs won't pop up until the fly wheel is turned - you prob know that already bit it does tend to catch folk out.x

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  15. Second Chance Tan17 March 2013 at 20:54

    Oooo great news that the first meet up went so well. I do hope the sewing machine gets fixed in time for your course - have fun x

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  16. Archie The Wonder Dog18 March 2013 at 17:58

    Looks like a lovely morning! I hope the magic caravan fixes your machine really quickly!

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  17. Anonymous18 March 2013 at 18:52

    Boo about your sewing machine, but yey for pictures of me lol! You've not got Reene in any of your photos though!

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    1. Reene@Nellie's Niceties18 March 2013 at 22:41

      Hooray to not being in any photos :) I'm totally unphotogenic!

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  18. Reene@Nellie's Niceties18 March 2013 at 22:42

    Was lovely to meet you on Saturday :)Glad to hear your machine is being fixed! Your Echo quilt looks great :)

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