Robin:
Welcome to the group. I live in PA also - where do you live? You will learn a lot about felting by spending time with this group.
Linda Hall
www.fabricartbylinda.com
www.fabricartbylinda.blogspot.com
Author of "The ART of Machine Needle Felting" book and CD
--- In machine_needle_felting@yahoogroups.com, "itsewyou" <rsmallen@...> wrote:
>
> Hi! I just got a call from my dealer today that 2 Janome Xpressions
> had come in and one had my name on it. I wish I could have run up to
> pick it up today...unfortunately it was not in the cards. So I am
> cooling my heels till Monday.
>
> I'm a sewing retread. I began sewing years ago...and stopped when my
> daughters would no longer wear smocked heirloom clothes. In the last
> few years with grown children and a full time job I found I could
> afford to indulge in the latest sewing technologies and begin to sew
> again...with the latest and greatest. You see, I am a technology
> junky! Meanwhile, in September, due to continued downsizing I
> was "forced" into retirement...smiling gleefully all the way.
>
> So, I have some machines that embroider (the Janome 11k and the
> Viking Designer SE), the Janome 6600 is coming for Christmas and the
> Xpression on Monday. If, by Christmas I can figure out how to turn
> machine embroidery into a home business that works, I will add the
> BMP6 in January but I am being very cautious about that expenditure.
>
> I am not a particularly artistic or creative person by nature, I
> follow any pattern well. But somehow this needle felting has really
> got me thinking. I'd like to use it somehow in quilts, and I have
> seen a fellow on ebay (and on the Quilters Network) who uses fabric
> and needle punches it crazy quilt style, adds some fibers and ribbons
> and makes fantastic pillows!
>
> So that's me, Robin in PA. Glad to have found you all and hope to
> learn lots.
>
> Robin
>
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