Red Letter Day

Still not sewing news... but much better!
He's out of bed at last!
And dressed. He looks pretty happy about it too!
Hopefully now he is upright, they can tempt him to find his lost kilos. ( I think I have found them here in Canberra)

a long time has passed....

Such a long time has passed. Busy months of waiting. Does that make any sense? The months vanished while we waited for progress. Michael finally made it out of intensive care and then began the long wait for his skin to heal. All this time he has been lying on his side or stomach, waiting for the skin to heal well enough to be able to sit.
Set back came in the form of having to regrow the skin after staff accidentally sheared off the newly healed skin while moving him.
This set back seem to go unlamented by him. He has been amazing with his graceful acceptance of the situation. I know I complain more each day and with less cause than he seems to in a week.

This week was a big one when he finally was able to start to sit. Who would have thought that was going to be something to get excited about back in February?

On the sewing front I have less to show-mainly because of the shroud of secrecy that must be maintained around the MBOM for 2007. It is finished, and if I do say so myself, it is fabulous. Just my opinion by the way!!! :)

This week I went to Gosford to learn all about the Husqvarna Viking machines we now stock. Boy do I love these machines! I learnt something. You can love to sew and that can mean getting a machine. Then you can love to use a great sewing machine and that means top end. To just sew, you can get by without spending a pile of money, but to have a really super time playing with the machine itself there is a strong case for spending a fortune! LOL Anyone got a spare fortune so I can have one to play with at home?????

As well as learning how the machines work I had to learn "ESS= Exclusive Sensor System" and "ESA= Exclusive Sewing Advisor" but the hardest lesson of all was that I have to call them "Hooskvarna Viking". Forget the add, "Husk as in corn". They tell me it is Hoosk as in....????? So Najelle and I call ourselves the Hoobysew Girls who went to Goosford to learn all about Hooskvarna Viking.

So much for an older chook to take in, but really it was fabulous. I wanted to fill my car up with samples to bring home!

At the shop we have a busy week ahead of us. On Thursday we are having the editors of Australian Patchwork and Quilting, Handmade and so on coming to show us the quilts that are starring in the current issues and talk about their magazines. We were worried that we wouldn't muster enough people to make it worth the trip for them but have been blown away by the fantastic support of the Canberra community who have put their names down to attend. It will be bigger than Ben Hurr!
Hooroo for now
Cathy