Tuesday, November 13, 2012

A Sewing Beauty for a Birthday Girl

I suppose the title for this post could be "Sewing Beauties."  After all, I am a sewing beauty and so is my fabulous sewing machine my parents got me for my birthday.  It is pretty much my favorite birthday gift for turning 22!  (Don't tell Brian, please.)  It is so fancy and wonderful!  It does everything and I mean everything!  It is computerized...all I do is push buttons and press the peddle.  It does everything else for me for the most part.

Some of its cool features include:
  • Cute decorative stitches with cars, camp trailers, hearts, flowers, tulips, and bicycles
  • An Up/Down feature which means I can set it to have the needle stop in the down position when I take my foot off the peddle when going around corners
  • A special foot for sewing leather, good thing there is a rodeo queen in the house with lots of leather stuff
  • The capability of sewing with twin needles
  • It can even tie off and cut the thread off for me with the push of a button
  • It has dual lights on the arm
  • Three fonts with numbers
  • I can create stitch programs on it to.  For instance, I can program every other stitch to be a flower then leaves to make a flower vine decorative stitch
  • It'll even tell me when the bobbin is running low, that will be nice because it is so annoying to be sewing along and have your bobbin run out
  • Automatic buttonholes and it'll even sew the buttons on
Sounds pretty smart and amazing if you ask me!  If anyone needs something sewn, talk to me...my machine will get the job done!

Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 835

The wonderful selection of stitches.

One set of my machine's many buttons.  These are the ones for programming and selecting stitches.

The Up/Down buttons, and backstiching is done with the press of a button.
 
I really was blessed with a wonderful birthday weekend back on the first weekend of November.  I had some of my best and closest friends over from school, and loved every second of it.  Brian was even able to make it over, which was really special.  Everyone loved the ice cream cake I made along with all the other treats I went crazy making.  I also really liked playing games with my friends.  The laughs were great and memorable.  Thanks to everyone who came over and helped kick off my birthday weekend!
 
Shauna brought me these super pretty flowers.  I loved the color of them!

Rachel made these adorable earrings for me.  I've been talking about making some like them, but I'm so glad she made them because she is way more talented at earring making than me.  Also, a special thanks to Rachel for all her help at my party!

On Saturday, Brian made me feel spoiled.  He got me everything I had said I would like for a birthday gift.  I did not tell him I needed all those things and I certainly would have been happy with going out for lunch.  But he spoiled me.  He got me a super pretty western picture frame, a leatherman for doing my crafts, and a warm fleece jacket.  He even made sure my leatherman had scissors so I can use them for cutting while crafting.  We also went out for lunch and breakfast.  He amazes me with his love.  His mom was also very kind and made sure to send me a gift...another pretty western frame.  

 
 
Thanks to mom and dad for the sewing machine and everyone else who gave me a little something or sent a card with kind words.  Thanks to Brian for the best birthday weekend, too.  My birthday was sure a good and special one!!