Didn’t get to play with my
new sewing machine until after supper, and it was too dark to take pictures.
But, oh, I love Odyssey. Yes, that’s her name. She wanted to be called Rarity
at first, but after being introduced to two dolls and several ponies by that
name already, she settled on Odyssey, or Odee, for short.
She scared me at first.
Finally got her all plugged in… took a breath and stepped on the foot pedal.
Whirrrrr. But nothing moved. Whirrrrr. Unplugged the foot pedal and pressed the
‘go sew ‘til I tell you to stop’ button, and got a similar whirrrr, one that I
could feel coming from the vent holes on the side as a light breeze. Oh, man,
wouldn’t that be the luck ? She lights up and everything, but doesn’t work at
all ! I was about to settle into some heavy-duty self-chiding and cursing the
donor when I remembered. Brother machines have sort of odd bobbin winders. They
barely seem to move at all when they’re engaged, and unlike my first Singer,
the needle doesn’t move a bit. Yup. The bobbin winder was activated. Once I
moved it back, she put more action in her whirr, and she was ready to sew !
As you can see, Odee is
awesome. All the stitches I tried work, and I can even play with the sizes, as
the scrap in the middle shows. Wow. It even tells me what presser foot to use
with the stitches ! Which, again, I have all but the walking foot from Brody,
and they fit perfectly. Printed out a few select pages from the manual for
reference – didn’t need to print the whole thing, most of it’s identical to
Brody’s. I blessed the donor, hoped he/she would someday be rewarded for
his/her kindness, and had fun playin’ ‘til bedtime.
Today, however, has not gone
very well. Got my computer back from Dearest Son to discover it’d picked up
Bing somehow. I’m sorry, I don’t care how ‘benign’ it is, when I have to delete
it three times from under hidden names and reconfigure my browser settings and
restart twice, Bing is not benign. I reassigned my curses to Bing developers.
And I didn’t win the Tiny
Doll Sewing Challenge. Didn’t even get a mention or a ‘thanks for trying’ note.
Kinda figured I wouldn’t, although mine
had the highest view count, but while my images got favorited, it wasn’t by Jen*Wrenne, the challenge and pattern
creator. You can guess which ones did win. Oh, well. I’m still proud of what I
sewed – let’s face it, getting that pattern to work on a doll with even a small
bustline took a lot of skill ! Plus, I did it with a buncha 2 ¼” scraps on one.
At least, that’s how I’m consoling m’self.
We went out to eat, and it
was heavenly. I may have binged on the food, but I was good at the drink bar.
Tried Sobe ‘LifeWater’, a beverage line I’ve avoided just because of the
uber-grandiose name. The restaurant had Yumberry Pomegranate, a flavor I would
have also avoided due to it’s ridiculous moniker, but it was that or sugar
sodas. It was actually fairly good, kind of an adult Kool-ade – water with
flavor, just more subtle than Strawberry Blast. In fact, I could say that a
good chunk of the taste actually came from the scent and aftertaste more than
the beverage itself. At least, at zero calories, it was something I could refill
on, and enjoy my dinner most heartily with !
I’ll probably sew tomorrow.
Just not in the mood for it today. I’m leaning towards some more embroidery…
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