I really have got to stop staying up till 4

[bunrab]

School starts again in a week and a half, and I have an 11 AM class - thank goodness, not a 9:30 AM one, which I got threatened with briefly when it seemed as though they couldn't find a new adjunct to do it - but even 11 means I have got to start getting to bed by midnight or so and waking up before 10 AM.

I got up early today, to go to a class on using a Gammill long-arm machine. That was fun, and one can rent time on the machine once one has taken the class, so I've signed up to rent several hours in february to finish some projects that have been lying around for a while now.

Hill Country had a pretty good sale for First Thursday this month - 20% off. Not that I needed more, but...

Perhaps a cookie will put me in a sleepy mood.

Comments

[momily.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite: what is a Gammill long-arm machine, and how does one complete projects with it?

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

it's a commercial-style quilting machine - one that means you don't have to do any basting first, and you can completely quilt a full-size quilt in about an hour, so that all that's left to do on your home machine or by hand is the binding. (For comparison, getting a full-size quilt basted by hand takes at least an hour itself, and makes one's back ache, and that's not including the time to find a flat clean surface LARGE enough to do the basting!! and then quilting it on my home sewing machine, including wrestling with rolling and re-rolling it, takes more than 10 hours total, and that's for something simple.)

[stylizedboredom.livejournal.com]

It is the coolest machine the world!!

I will take my class soon enough and then from my home will spring a thousand quilts. Or so the prophet said.