Now Playing: washing machine, on final spin
Current Mood : Weary
Well, it looks like ‘Friday Night Date' will have to be postponed. The laundry took all day - and I'm not finished yet. Well, that'll happen when I haven't done it for a week and some.
In the mail, though, I got the latest Hancock Fabrics ad. Looks like they got a big tie-in to the ‘reality' show Project Runway - there's branded fabric, Simplicity patterns, and even a pair of Brother sewing machines. It's kind of funny to me, the machines are $400. and $600., computerized with 50 stitches for the less expensive one, and nearly 300 for the other. Not your basic $150. ‘new to sewing' machine. I know they're trying to inspire Joe and Jane Everyviewer to sew their own creations, but if just dipping a toe in the water was $500. out of the gate, I'd have to really think hard about adopting sewing as a hobby. Yeah, Joe and Jane can easily buy the $90. machine pictured on the next page of the ad, but you'd think whoever's coordinating the thing would go for an entry-level machine for the new sewists, and a high-end one for the more experienced ones.
Well, it could just be cheap, tightwad me. After all, for many, $400. would be entry level ! Still, my old $50. Singer (R.I.P.) and my current $89. Kenmore/Janome did a lot for me, with much more for me still to learn - I'm nowhere near outgrowing my current setup ! Plus I don't think I'm ready for computerized stitch catalogs. It'd be nice, but I'd have to win one in a contest or something, I just can't see shelling out hard-earned for one any time soon. Heck, last week I was looking at an old cam-stitch sewing machine with covet in my chest - $40. was pretty reasonable, but where would I put it ?
The patterns were intriguing - there's even two plus-size, and they're on sale next week. But what really got my attention was the fabric. Any material that has sewing notions printed on it will intrigue sewists ! And there were fun silhouettes of women in funky clothes, and one showed dress forms ! The ad only showed a sliver of the fabric, so I hit the hancockfabrics.com site, to see if it was worth a run to the cross-town store.
Nope. Not there. Not under ‘Project Runway' or ‘New Fabrics'. A general web search didn't show much either, except that at least the ‘logo sayings' and ‘straight pin' prints were out - someone bought some, and photographed it. Of course, the ones I was most interested in weren't pictured. So maybe this weekend, I'll hop over there. It's been a while.
