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Well, it’s here!  The big day has finally arrived.  Jamie Wallen is coming over this morning to spend the day with me.  He will be assembling my new A-1 and showing me how to create magic!  Well, I doubt my quilting will look magical, but it’s going be surreal.  I still can’t believe it! I am just so excited.  I didn’t sleep a wink last night.  I have to admit, I’m a nervous wreck too.  What if is something is wrong?  What if we finally plug in my A-1 and it doesn’t work?  Silly, I know.  I know everything will be okay…hopefully.

I can’t say enough how wonderful Scott has been.  He gave up his fishing/tool and storage area to house my new A-1. We really don’t have any other place to put it.  When we finished our basement 3 years ago, we deliberately left that area unfinished for storage and his things.  We have a very large family room with a kitchenette, bedroom and bath in our basement now.  The bedroom is my current sewing studio. [no bed in there :-)]  Unfortunately, we built it a foot too small to have my A-1 in there.  If we had known then what we know now, we would have made that room a little bigger.  I didn’t want a LA in the family room, so our storage room was really the only place it could go.  Poor Scott.  I will say it made us purge and throw a TON of stuff away we didn’t need to be saving!  Scott thought we could have been featured on the show Hoarders!  LOL!  Initially, it was such a nightmare!  Oh and the mess!  Scott really did most of the work.  He’s painted, put down a beautiful new floor and added my cabinets.  There’s still some finishing touches that need to be done, but I don’t care.  I would’ve loved it before he did all the work.  I am just thrilled to have my machine.  Scott is the one that’s been concerned with how nice the room is.  Scott does get to keep a very small corner for some of his things.  He’s definitely earned it!

I thought I would give a little peak so far…

I think I found the perfect spot to hang my “Butter Churn.”

 
I have a new 8 Ft. long pressing station.  Scott made a very large ironing board for me last night.  I helped…I handed him the scissors.  He securely placed the cabinets away from the wall, so I have ample space to press a large quilt.  He even made sure that I had enough room behind the cabinets to use my Swiffer!   He’s good.
Here is an idea of what the room looked like before.  A bit of a change??
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My new saddle stool for quilting.  It came with my package.  It’s so comfortable.  I can’t wait to try it while I’m quilting!  Soon, very soon my friends…