Hi!! My name is Chryssie and this is my very first blog post, eeeeek!! I am feeling a little nervous! Haha!! So please bare with me if I’m a little scattered throughout my first few posts ;o)
I have toyed around with the idea of starting a blog for a few years now, and finally I am taking the plunge, yayyyy!!! So... the reason for my blog? One word... SEWING!!!!!! :-) I am 100 thousand percent, hook-line-and-sinker, head-over-heals, in looooooove with sewing. Oh my goodness, I have fabric, sewing ideas, fabric, tutorials, fabric, patterns, fabric, notions and trims, fabric, and more!! on my mind every. single. day! Oh and did I mention fabric? ;o) Hahaha!! You know I think this little meme below suits me perfectly...
Okay, so my little blog will obviously be allllll things sewing and crafty related but I guess I should tell you a little bit about me and how I came to have this sew-bug of mine? Well, I am a happily married Mummy of 3 beautiful daughters living in Queensland Australia, and my sew-bug came from my sweet Nana, the most beautiful lady I know :o)
My Nana is almost 87 years old and still sews, crochets, quilts and anything else crafty related week in and week out. She has been a member of the Country Women’s Association in almost every town she’s ever lived in and wins 1st prize regularly at the yearly show and other events. My Nana owns an array of different machines (I don’t even know what some are!) and her cupbards are jammed with crafty knick-knacks. This beautiful lady shared her talent with me and started to teach me when I was a little girl, in fact I joined the Junior CWA when I was 9 years old in a little town we lived in called Halifax in Far North Queensland, my Saturday mornings were lots of fun!
I did the subject Home Economics all the
way through High School and my Nana was my teacher (well not my teacher at
school but my ‘real’ teacher, she taught me more than my high school teachers
ever did) and she was the one who fixed my big mistakes, helped me finish off
items I would be making for assignment submissions (last minute of course), and
put up with me raiding her stash and using her overlocker and machines. Not only using her machines but jamming them,
snapping needles, losing her favourite scissors, and more, oops, sorry
Nana! (Especially about the scissors, no
one touch the scissors!! All sewists
understand what I mean when it comes to those precious scissors right? hahaha!!!)
I was always bugging her on weekends with “what can we make Nana? I want to make something” and she would put
down what she would be trying to work on herself to make something with me, oh
my beautiful, patient, wonderful Nana <3 I am so glad I inherited her
talent, and I can say that these days I’m pretty good at avoiding the jamming of
machines and snapping of needles.... most of the time ;o) Here is a photo of myself and Nana on my wedding
day 8 years ago, it’s my favourite pic...
I stopped sewing for about 10 years once I finished high school, moved out of home and began working full time, then I met my husband and started having kids. But when my girls were babies I had this yearning to do something creative. I wanted to make special Mummy made things for my girls and started reminiscing over my sewing days, so I told my hubby that I’d like to buy myself a basic machine. I called my Nana up and asked her what I should buy as a beginner machine (knowing before I even called her that it MUST be a Janome, the brand she swears by, haha!!) and I ended up buying the Janome My Style 5027LE, whom I fondly called “Nomy”. Well, she was a FABULOUS machine to learn again on. Such a little work horse who sewed hours upon hours upon hours, I managed to jam her up, snap needles, force her through FAR too thick seams manually with the turning wheel if she couldn’t do it herself, but no matter what, she always recovered herself, never broke down and I always finished my items beautifully (albeit with a lot of unpicking at times, haha!!).
After a few years I decided I was well practiced enough now and craved something with a little more sparkle. I started boring hubby by rambling on about the kind of machine I’d love to have, and last Christmas he surprised me and told me I could buy myself a fancy new machine. Either he wanted to surprise me, or he got sick of hearing about how “I’d love a machine that has this feature and that feature, blah, blah, blah...” hahaha!!! ;o) But let’s just say there was lots of squeeling and happy dancing around my lounge room the day I bought my brand new “Ruby” (Am I the only one who names their machines and refers to them as ‘her’ and ‘she’?? Haha!!) Ruby is my beautiful Janome Horizon Memory Craft 7700 Quilting Companion Professional, and she’s my best friend in the woooooooorld. I know there are plenty far more expensive machines out there but Ruby to me is A-MAAAAAAZING and I am soooo in loooove, hahaha!!! (I still have Nomy though, there’s no way I could part with her). Here is my Ruby fresh out of the packaging...
My overlocker is the Janome 744D, totally amazing, has done billions of hours of serging (okay maybe not BILLIONS but you know what I mean) and is the very definition of a work horse, she has never missed a beat or buggered up in any way EVER. (By the way, I’m starting to think Janome may owe me a little something after all these shout outs! Hahahaha!!!!)
Well, I think that’s plenty enough about me for my first post. I introduced my very much loved machines, which of course are important right? I mean, they are the star of the show and do all the hard work! ;o) and now I look forward to the many things I wish to share with you all in future blog posts, I have SO many ideas!
To finish off I should say that I would class myself as an intermediate sewer. I am still learning new things all the time and there are many things I haven’t had a go at yet so I believe I still have much to learn, and I would say there are plenty of tips and tricks I would be unaware of too. So this is why I wanted to start my blog, to share my sewing journey, and I hope that you may come across some great ideas from what I write or even give me some advise when I post my little projects! And if you are a beginner sewist, then I would love for you to follow my journey as I learn new skills and try new things, and hopefully you will gain confidence in your own ability too and build your skills alongside mine :o) I would LOVE to hear from my followers (if I get any, I HOPE SO!!) and would especially love for you to share your creatice pieces with me, especially if you got the information or inspiration from my posts. That would be so much fun!! :o)
Anyway I hope you enjoyed my very first, and long, (oops sorry!) blog post and until next time, thanks for reading and happy sewing!! :o) xoxoxo
Ps.. I’d love to hear if you name your machines like I do? Or am I crazy after all?? ;o) Haha!!
