It has been a month today since I started blogging. It has only about a week or 2 longer that for quilting.
It's funny that my new best friends are my cutting blade (this is my third, the first too small, the second too weak it popped closed when I pushed too hard, and now this one is just right). My ruler and cutting pad. My trusty Iron (and on second ironing board). You can't forget the sewing machine.
I can not forget all of my new best friends out in blog land. Thank you every one for the wonderful help and encouragement. I would not have survived this month with out all of you. It has been amazing the things I have learned. While month one down. Lets start on month 2. Below is the 8 items I got complete in that first month. Amazing. Make sure you come back on Friday for my weekly finish linky party. I will have 2 items on this weeks list (so far).
Being new to quilting I do not yet know what all tools of the trade best fit the job at hand. So far I have bought a sewing machine I bought a Singer model 7258. This is not a cheap low end, nor is it a expensive high end machine. I am a computer programmer (that's my paid job any way) and I am high tech and when my wife bought my machine she new I would want bells and whistles and it had to be digital. This machine is wonderful and I have nothing to complain about it. Once I got my machine and some material it was quite obvious that they would not cut up just by me staring it down. My wife had a small Olfa Rotary Cutter she had for craft projects, I started with this. I bought a small Omnigrid Mat. I later realized was way too small, which got upgraded to a much larger Olfa Mat. OK have material, a mat, a knife. Now I needed a plan. Oh ya I don't know how to sew. I bought a book The Magic of Quiltmaking.
From the first moment, I knew my little knife was too small, so I bought a Fiskars Rotary Blade (the one in the rotating ad. Which I have to say I completely HATE!! Oh I HATE it. I can't say that enough. Being a man, I get into my cutting and I put too much strength into it and it keeps popping closed. So I bought a bigger Olfa Rotary cutter to replace my baby sized one. Now your saying, why is there a Giant ad and a bunch of blabber about tools. I am new and you all are more experienced then me. What I would like is a linking party to any and all posts that you have about the tools you use. The tools you Hate (I don't want to buy them, but need to be aware) and the ones you dream to buy.
All of the basic tools that I have is what is rotating in the add above. The dream item I have is a embroidery machine (I like fancy junk, ya I know, I am a guy not supposed to like fancy crap), but I do. Oh and one of those giant quilting machines. Please leave a note or a link to a post that will help me figure out what tools I want to buy. The sky is the limit!
It has been a month today since I started blogging. It has only about a week or 2 longer that for quilting.
It's funny that my new best friends are my cutting blade (this is my third, the first too small, the second too weak it popped closed when I pushed too hard, and now this one is just right). My ruler and cutting pad. My trusty Iron (and on second ironing board). You can't forget the sewing machine. 
