Hi Melanie and Gigi!! Yes, I did retire in Dec 2014, after 37 years with the Post Office. We did remodel and I have a large 11 by 22 room for all my sewing and other crafts, although my sewing has taken over the room. Dan and I went on a wonderful trip last year, for 3 months, to New Zealand and Australia, and can't believe it was just a year ago that we went. That was my retirement present to us. I have been enjoying working on my quilts and machine embroidery since retirement, although I still can't seem to get as much done as I think I should be able to.
Time just zooms by every day and it's time for dinner just when I feel like I was getting started in my sewing room.
I haven't used my Silver Bullet for years.. and I need to remember how to set it up again. Since we moved all my crafting stuff around, I need to remember where I put all my supplies for my cutter... the extra mats, blades etc. (And I hope I can find my cords!!) I took a class a few weeks ago, where we made some quilt blocks using Brothers Scan N Cut, and that got me motivated to get my cutter out and start seeing what I can do with it. I know I played around a little bit with fabric when I first got it, but didn't do much other than test cutting fabric. Now it's time to get serious about it. I have some software to help in designing quilts, where I can create entire quilt blocks to stitch out in my embroidery hoop, and it will save the files to cut the fabric, and even do some decorative stitching to hold the fabric together. So I'm anxious to play around with that and my cutter and see what I can come up with.
Glad to see at least a few people from way back when are still around... and I'm hoping once I get my machine set up again, I will remember what I was doing before and don't have to learn it all over again.
Diane in Colorado Springs