tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30652169575305889332024-02-18T20:50:15.662-05:00ValerysGalleryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02491285795886322418noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065216957530588933.post-78029742208220791932014-01-15T15:38:00.001-05:002014-01-15T15:38:05.584-05:00Pin keep<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pin keeps or pin cushions are used to store straight pins and sewing needles. Most are weighted in some fashion. According to Victorian folklore, a tomato placed in a new home would bring prosperity, if a tomato was not to be had one was made from a ball of fabric. The most popular form of a pincushion to this day is the tomato.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A little history lesson and you may ask "what's that got to do with Valerys Gallery?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back at Valerys Gallery, as I was cutting and piecing quilt blocks all I could think about was that sewing machine. I even thought of a name...Naomi...Naomi Janome, corny...I love it! I compared their price with prices online, their price was lower and the store services the Janome machines. I called hubby, I called the store, shut down Valerys Gallery for lunch, drove to Keene and picked up Naomi!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She sat in the box in my craft room at home until I closed up the shop. I was a tad bit more excited about getting the two blocks of the quilt I designed done than playing with Naomi. But when I got home at 5:30, I said hello to hubby and headed for the craft room. My old standby Singer "Slant-o-Matic" got swept aside to make room for the new. I have two old Singer machines, a White I bought from a school's overstock, a vintage Kenmore I haven't checked out yet, my mom's old Brother machine, and a newer White quilting machine, they'll come in handy when I start having sewing classes otherwise </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd just be a hoarder of sewing machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I digress, I went through the user guide front to back, wound a bobbin, threaded her up and took her for a spin. (I tried out the needle threader...in the dark...very nearly, the guide says "shut the machine off", WHAT!, no light and I'm farsighted, I cheated and turned it back on, I've had a needle in my finger before and I'm sure my finger will never let that happen again! The needle threader worked like a charm.) She's so quiet I may nod off in that capacious harp space. Alas, dinner calls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Goodnight, Naomi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep calm and dream on!</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Master the ElectricQuilt7 program. Thank you, Santa</span></span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Master the </span>Cricut<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Expression. Thank you, Santa</span></span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn how to free motion quilt - </span>FMQ<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">Learn how to crazy quilt.</span></span></li>
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