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I practiced with my sewing machine for the first time since my lesson last week. I had to download the manual for my Janome Magnolia 7318 (guess who cannot remember where the print one went) but it's still magic that it winds the bobbin for you. I wound SO MANY bobbins (probably very badly) for my mom. :)

Today's report is:
Me: Huh, I was great at sewing accurately and straight as a beginner, but right now it's ALL OVER THE PLACE and the tension feels weird?

Also me, five minutes later: OH. THE PRESSER FOOT WAS UP. :facepalm: :p

I'm hoping to practice some more and then book a "reading patterns, how do??" lesson Fair Fit Studio (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, local to me) as I loved the instructor's "baby steps n00b sewing machine 101, how do??" lesson. :D And then maybe I can destroy some innocent cheap muslin trying to sew a thing. :D

What are y'all working on, or hoping to try in January?

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yhlee

Tbh, I should poll the comm as to whether allied topics are welcome. Speaking for a me, since my lace bobbin beginner kit (THE PILLOW!!!) arrived yesterday and I am dying to give it a whirl.

(In real life, the pillow will instantly be sat on by my catten and full of catten hairs...)

My mother used to love quilting, although she no longer sews due to arthritis, and my husband's Tante is an expert quilter as well. I don't have quilting ambitions (yet) but it's extremely cool! I should possibly cross-post pics from the book of traditional Korean quilts here? It's wild - the style is completely different from the Western-style quilts that my mom was doing. I have no idea about the sewing techniques but one of my Korean quilting books in English or French probably does discuss that.

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nou

I’m interested in hearing about Korean quilting! I’ve done a bit of patchwork to use up fabric scraps from sewing (it’s not a new hobby, it’s a way of using waste from an existing hobby) and am keen to learn new ways of doing it. I found out about crumb quilting recently, which looks like it’ll be useful.

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yhlee

Oh, how cool! :D Crumb quilting is new to me (via you!); I think quilting is very pretty but have never attempted it and don't really follow it. There are some Korean styles of quilting that have a similar look (and I bet it comes from the same general philosophy of waste not, want not, cf. that one barely edible pickled tree leaf dish my mom fed me once so she could tell me that its name in Korean translate, roughly, as "we ate it and lived").

Anyway, I'll try to post some of the Korean quilting stuff this week when time permits.

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nou

That sounds very much like when I tried to make a pickle from carrot greens. It was just about edible, but most of it went into the compost, which is where I should have put the greens in the first place.