I spent all weekend sewing up Christmas presents and there were some definite challenges but in the end I completed 3 projects! Yeah! My Viking Sapphire is a fun, beautiful and lovely machine but boy, it sure doesn’t care for heavy-duty projects and complains the whole time. “Pressure foot too high” or “motor overload, please [...]
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I live on a sheep farm in Washington State and enjoy the country life. I enjoy everything living on a farm entails - gardening, managing our stock, riding horses, having dogs and critters about and trying to keep it simple. Plain fact is that sometimes it gets all way too complicated, so I'm just a work in progress. I enjoy creating original designs and I spin, knit, sew, quilt, make soap and lotions and homemade just-about-anything! Visit for a while and see what kind of trouble I've been getting into lately.