Let me tell you a dumb story to start with.

a month ago or something, I went out and bought myself a cheap sewing machine. It was quite needed for various reasons, such as patching up pants or shortening them without having to pay someone else goddamn $18-$24 a piece. At the rate that I wear these cheap jeans/pants/whatever out, this can easily equate to approximately $100 a year just to get them shortened and so on and so forth. that’s just the least of it.

But I also want to do quilting so that *I* can have my very own “home-made” quilt. so to speak. it’s like this damn childhood dream that won’t go away, courtesy of all the stupid tv shows/soaps I used to watch.

So, I was incredibly excited to own my very own sewing machine.

Fast forward to 2 days ago… I finally comprehend a few things about quilting – I can’t really “cheat” and use the things that come with it to do quilting. that’s fair enough. Now, bear in mind my mum is a pretty experienced and bulk-selling seamstress. I went out to the sewing shop thinking that I can buy a “walking foot” and a “Darning foot” for less than $10.

it costs $70 and $30 respectively.

where the HELL did mum ever get her damn foots and needles?!?!

besides that, the lady at sewing bug appeared to get a little snotty once she realised I am all new into 1) the sewing world and 2) the quilting world. she suggested that perhaps I should 1) use youtube to learn more about quilting and 2) that my sewing machine needs a replacement. Because, according to her, since it’s a cheap basic sewing machine with less than 10 stitches (it suggested 47 with the inclusion of different foots not provided), that my bobbins will snag and pucker the whole quilt up. now, I reckon that while this quilting thing might be a few times off thing (so say i make a few and get annoyed), but i definitely don’t want to make one to have it pucker up on me.

so, you can say, I was almost on the verge of tears. that I have spent $150 to perhaps make the ugliest things on earth/ruined things was completely pissing me off (oh, not to mention that I am also PMS-ing).

So I went to the quilting shop she recommended for getting more japanese fabrics (they have the cutest prints ever in forever!), and I just thought, why not seek secondary advice. So, I explained to the nice lady what I was told, and ask her should i then get a new machine from her (since they specialise in quilting machines) and etc etc.

I think I touched a raw nerve somewhere, because next thing I know, she sat me down and explained the basics of how each foot works, how quilting works and why you don’t need a NEW QUILTING MACHINE $!#)@#(@ to make a quilt. This is without me even obviously buying anything. so now, I breathe happily. Yes, it’s probably quite an expensive thing to have to buy a $70 foot for a $150 machine (it comes free with the 499 machine), but I have already committed to one machine, I have yet to really learn to use it too. so, guess what, I am getting the damn $70 foot.

and I ain’t buying it from that moron-twerp-monkey face.

of course, this currently means that I will not finish the ferret quilt yet – I don’t have $100 to throw around unless someone wants to go arab street to scout along for foots for me hahahaha. At any rate, I am quite impress with the Hobby Sew (Belconnen) lady whose name I never caught (Cathy I think it was), and I am quite determined to buy things from them that I can afford when I need to (such as, perhaps, quilting 101 LOL)

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Kindleboards is a terribly addictive board – and it’s also domesticating me on various fronts (HARHARHAR). So, I am actually investing in a few things that will be a part of my “future” kitchen – i.e things that will last for more than 12-24 months (such as my stupid microwave ovens that has been constantly dying every year or every other month).

One of the few things I have decided upon was a blender (i think i listed it somewhere at some point), a mixer, a coffee machine, a cast iron pan and a GENUINE RICE COOKER + WOK. These all can cost abit for their longeveity, so I am buying them seperately at different times. The franchise owner of House in Civic has been very helpful (and her goods are around market rate or LESS. sometimes, you can bargain with her too hahaha!).

BUT! first in the house isn’t a wok (because I have a sub-par but workable wok-like thing) or a rice cooker (because canberra can be shocking for good, programmable rice-cookers).. in fact, the first few things I bought were spice pots, sugar & tea pots as well as a cookie jar. Don’t ask me why, but since salvos had cute things, I wasn’t about to let it go.

The big ticket item though, was my beautiful pink KitchenAid blender. yes, PINK!!!!!!

cute bo? hahaha….

also, found the sister to my heart spoons:

flower measuring cups! HAHAHA! I think somewhere, someone’s going to dig up the grave of the person who made pink an active colour hahahaha

now all I have to do, is to get a matching Pink Mixer, pink rice cooker… bahaha, and… well, I guess you can’t find a pink cast iron pan, but I think Tefal made some pink based pans + pots or something, I will see how they are although, I have been told, cast iron pans last a life time…. so well, pink or not, I will manage hahaha