Current Mood : Happy !
Current Image Notes : You may remember the Battat AG-clone I bought from the Boy Scouts' flea market last month. Her hair had been cut and was terribly snarled, so I conditioned, cut and permed it - and then I made her a simple halter top from the leftover denim that was part of an infant skirt. Well, here she is ! This is Jenny.
And we're slowly getting back on schedule. With 30 to 40 mph winds rattling the windows in the casings, Beloved was not getting on a ladder this morning, so he's home today. The Dumpster for the Shop was delivered, and it's where you can't get to it unless ya mean it. I've been kinda worried about sudden sofas appearing in there. We've already had to deal with similar, if smaller-scale, happenstance.
Scrubbed a layer of dirt off the SuperStar Malibu's face, and now her head matches her neck much better. I'd kinda been wanting the ‘My Favorite Doll' SuperStar, but not obsessively so, and now that "Miassa's" here (what can I say, ya'll - they name themselves !) it's pretty much gone away.
In Brody news, today I learned that all of KJ's feet - even the ruffler ! - will work with him, too. Score ! While Brody comes with about ten of his own that I've never owned before, the KJ had a couple of unique ones, too. And it's great that I can switch back and forth. That's a bonus I wasn't expecting. I also learned that the elastic strap on Brody's equipment box (the embroidery platform takes the space where a tray of such items would normally go) is great for securing that screwdriver you forgot to put away, until you have to open the box again. Brother thinks of everything...
Except where their videos wandered off to. I've been reading their old newsletters, and while most of the design and image links work, the History of Brother series has vanished. Darn. I kinda wanted to hear about that. Evidently, they really were founded by brothers, with a sewing machine they wanted to name ‘Sister', but that name was already taken.
Yesterday I downloaded a free font manipulator, and it's fun, but it only works with their proprietary fonts - they answered me today - and once you've saved a design, there's no going back and editing it. If something's wrong, you get to do it all over again. On the plus side, it'll print out a correct scale version of your design, so you can see if it fits on paper before committing it to thread and fabric.
It only saves in a format Brody just barely acknowledges, but as it turns out, when I pulled it up in Pulse's Ambassador, it saved as my preferred format ! Yup, Ambassador can convert the files, too. Wow. I've really lucked out with the ME freebies ! I'm hoping to try a stitch-out tomorrow. If it works, I can cross something's that's been bugging me since Christmas off the ole ‘to do' list.
You're gonna laugh, but what I want this to work so much for, is a canning-jar-lid insert for Dearest Son's teacher. She got Teacher of the Year, and I've been meaning to make something personal to commemorate the event, but until I scored Fonts Plus, I didn't know how. And for some reason, I just can't make myself cross-stitch it.
When funds are snug, what I've been known to do is pull down one of the new Mason pint jars I keep for gift emergencies, and fill it with candy. I'll cross-stitch a design to fit between the lid and the collar, and sew some eyelet lace and ribbon to go around the outside of the collar. Materials and candy total only about two bucks, and that's with good candy.
But now, I have Brody, so I'm hoping to make this lid decoration double-sided, with a ‘Teacher of the Year' stitch-out on one side and either a cute cat - her favorite - or her initial on the other. Initials are easy, but I have some documents listing her first name starting with a ‘Y', others with a ‘J'. I hate to ask which it is, but I'm not sure if there's time and funds right now for the thread and the cat design that I'd really like to work out for her. But that's the beauty of the candy jar lid project - I can always make more and give them to her later !
I just gotta get off my round rump, though - or the school year will be over before I can get it done !
with the rare chance you find something good. Also I don't like the cloth bodies. It seems to limit the kinds of outfits they can wear, well at least in my eyes it does.
