Specifically activa 230. I have read the manual and looked online, and I am obviously missing something simple. I have re-threaded the bobbin, and put on the proper foot. These are automatic buttonholes, so all after the first will be copies of the first.

I would like to share something that I have made as a new years resolution for myself. I resolved that: "I would only have things that I considered beautiful, surrounding me". I know that sounds impossible, if not a bit pretentious, but if you think of it, you spend your life using things and being...

A Irish man is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes upon a preacher baptising people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher... The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol,

At long last I finished my teapot quilt. It's the one called "Little Tea Pots" in my Quilts album http://gallery.me.com/mwoz2 I started embroidering the blocks in 2003 when I sprained my ankle. Then I worked on them off and on for years. I finally got the top put together in

FINALLY! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!!! as my Grampy used to say. Back in the fall I bought a Janome 1600P and a grace quilting frame. fast forward to December, after 4 fruitless 2 hour round trips to the LQS trying to get them to fix the machine, when I finally figured out a way to...

It describes what thread to use for what purpose and the characteristics of various threads. http://quiltbug.com/Articles/thread-theory.htm Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

My local Craigslist has a posting for a Singer Fashionmate in case for $45. I have my old Kenmore portable workhorse. and a old Brother in cabinet. That's all . Anyone have an opinion on the Fashionmate? I am just not into the compuerized machines. thanks, Ginger in CA

Don't know how many of you may have been watching this: http://www.pixcontroller.com/WebCam/WebCam-FullScreen.htm We have counted 21 wild turkeys at one time. Lots & lots of small birds. Three female deer and two stags with antlers and a fox. Fun but it always seems to be snowing in PA.

My former family doctor has been working in Haiti for several years. This is an email we received last night. Cindy ************** Dear all, Yesterday at 5PM we were home from work in our second story apartment. They had just hooked up the small generator so that we could have some electric...

My son sent this of my little grandgirl. Thought you might enjoy. http://family.webshots.com/video/3010867060094178028AisimE

Here is a e-mail my wife received from one of soused girlfriends. I take no responsability for the language or content. Just the appreciation of humor. John ***** To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine... And those who don't and are always seen with a bottle of water in their hand.

I haven't written lately, but have been reading of course. I am wondering if anyone has the link to " How to make an insert for a SM in a table",not actually those words, but some while back there was an How To link and of course it disappeared when my computer crashed. We have an Ikea table...

* Wal-Mart announced that, sometime in early 2010, it will begin offering customers a new discount item ..... Wal-Mart's own brand of wine. The world's largest retail chain is rumored to be teaming up with Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery of California to produce the spirits at an affordable price -- in...

This link was talked about at my guild this morning: http://www.quiltsforkids.org/patterns/ You can work with their quilt kits if you like. They have some simple kids quilt patterns at the bottom of the page if you do this kind of stuff. I had never heard of this group until today. Taria

Between the wedding and Christmas goings on, I never did wrap gifts; just sacked them and handed them out. That was okay. The traffic coming through all seemed to admire the barren Christmas tree skirt and begged for one. So. I would like to make four before Dec 1st. Here's ambivalence at...

I am sure everyone is getting pretty sick of the cold, bad weather. In my junk e-mail this morning was an ad for JC Penney. They want to sell, of all things, swimsuits! So spring must be just around the corner. I hope I can be as hopeful as they are! Won't be long until we are griping about the...

I've got tons of new 30s reproduction fabric, but after Mom passed away, I kept her actual vintage fabrics. She had lots of 30s conversation prints already cut in fairly small pieces. Unfortunately, there are no vintage solid pieces. My question is, since the fabric is in very, very good shape,...

This quiz was designed for Americans so I am especially curious to see how our quilters from "furrin parts" score. http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html Except for my brief stint on the eastern slope of Colorado, I have never lived any further south than the...

Once again it is time for the RCTQ Annual Quilting Weeks! Can't remember how long we've been doing this, maybe seven or eight years!? (Yes, it used to be just a week or ten days, but lets stretch it out and go for two weeks this time!) It is easy to get side tracked by holiday events during...

This past weekend was Mundimas. Our secondary Christmas celebrated with DD2 who won't ever be able to get any holidays off just due to the nature of her job. Part of this annual holiday is the game of video oneupmanship played mostly amongst the males in the house. This year I beat them all in the...