Fending for themselves

That's what my poor neglected children have to do this weekend :-) With a little (a lot!) of help from family, my new toy has arrived yesterday! I am thoroughly enjoying myself testing it - albeit on top not inside my sewing table as it is considerably bigger that my old machine so DH will have to make some alterations.
Since my last post I have finished my old job, been to the snow, trout fly fishing and rock wall climbing (well, support - morale and physical- for the latter two), have started my new job (thoroughly enjoyed my first three days) and gone back to my old school for my one day / week (I haven't had as many hugs in a day ever, seems the students missed me lol).
There are three washing baskets of washing to fold and put away, the dog hasn't been fed, bread needs making, I need to shoot up to Suz for a missing ingredient for dinner but obviously my priorities are with my
new toy - I better get back to it!

Lumi Inkodye

And yet another wet weekend is over! Still pouring with rain though, hubby won't like that, he's off to night shift in a couple of hours... It's been a busy week, I have finished my f/t teaching job and with it the mountains of paperwork - reports, certificates of achievement, grades, anecdotal notes, reflections etcetc phew!
This weekend then we had to pack as middle DS and I are geading down to the snow with his school next week :-) By all accounts it will be COLD (I obviously have gone soft from living in the NZ Far North for 15 years!)- and then there's the little added problem of Mt. Tongariro erupting once last weekend. So far nothing has happened since, ski fields are open so we're still on! Luckily I hold the camera so won't appear in many pics, must be almost 20 years and at least 20kg since I last skied, I might be quite a sight - not!
My new machine is on the way from Germany due to the generous help from family - might even arrive by next weeken ready to be tried out :-) I went for the Pfaff after all, keeping my fingers crossed it will do what I want it to do.
In the meantime I have started working on a quilt for an ex-colleague, using the idea from Janet on what comes next. At this stage I am making a whole lot of blocks (80?), once I have exact measurements I will add sashings (probably in white). I am tempted to use QAYG due to likely size, we'll see.
Lastly, my hubby just saw sth. about Inkodye by Lumi on tv - lumi.co. Looks very interesting, does anyone know a bit more about this?
Have a good week everyone!

Another week is over - tgif!

Just one more week f/t teaching! A colleague mentioned today that I looked a lot less stressed lol I have to say I had a good week, calluses on my finger tips from playing bass for class bands, square eyes from writing heaps of reports but I know 'the end is near' ;-). After next week I could be utterly sick of playing "Soul Sister" by Train, but it is a cool song and the kids can play it. We've also been dabbling with "Don't forget your roots" by the NZ band Six60 today - do look them up sometime, some of our homegrown Kiwi talent.
Due to all this my sewing has suffered a bit, but I managed to try out some new feather Suz had forwarded me a link for which she had in turend from Leeanne from quiltmekiwi blog  - http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/video-tutorial.html.There is some seriously cool quilting on this blog!
I am still working through the possibility of that new machine, see last post, so any advice is still much appreciated!
Happy Sewing Weekend!