It’s been a busy week. I haven’t been home, like, at all, and since I’m still recovering from a sinus infection, it’s wearing me out! However, in my opinion, it’s been worth it.

Here I am, talking about starting up a knitalong for Christmas stockings, and then I go and buy a sewing machine and serger.

I am really excited. I’ve never used a serger before, but the shop will give me unlimited lessons for free to teach me how to use both machines to their potential. They are both used. The sewing machine is a Babylock Esante Es-e2, which is also an embroidery machine, and the serger is an older Babylock with some differential something or other. I think I got a really good deal on them, but the shop owner is a TOTAL hard sell/make-the-deal kind of guy, so you never know.

I’m about to start my homework from my first lesson on the machine, which is to stitch out all 100+ decorative stitches, large and small version, to see how they look on fabric.

Hee hee.

Oh, and I’ll talk to Nate about naming and making a button for the knitalong. I looked at Blogger really quick per Diana’s suggestion, but I didn’t see how I could add other users to the blog. So, I have a little bit of investigating to do before deciding whether to set up a knitalong blog, or just do it here like I’ve always done. Any opinions?