Over the weekend I continued to work on samples until I ran out of suitable fabric – plain enough for the stitching to show but not totally plain.  My machine was cantankerous, making new noises and not making perfect stitches so I was glad that I had booked a visit to the service man Gil at Rumpled Quilt Skins in Okotoks.  Not next door but this store comes highly recommended by a friend back in Ottawa.  What a banquet of quilts to view...

I’m finally back at my sewing machine.  Thanks to surgery and physiotherapy, the wrist is working fairly well, although my coordination is not what I’d like it to be.  So I designed my own therapy to work on that! I started about a month ago when I tackled a task I had talked about for two years – documenting the built-in embroidery stitches on my sewing machine.  Somehow the computer images just don’t tell the whole...