MUCH excitement here at Chez TeaBot – I’ve just booked flights to go to Adelaide at Christmas to be with my family!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!
But the Beloved TeaBot5000™ isn’t coming 
He’s staying to look after the wee beasties and other things here. I will be away for EIGHTEEN sleeps – I don’t think we’ve EVER been apart for that long! Oh NOES!
Dad, as always, told me not to stint – “Pay extra and get a seat on the INSIDE of the plane, dear!” – yup.
The new baggage rules are sucky though – you have to pay for baggage on the cheap tickets (yep, $8 extra per flight) and have only a checked allowance of 23 kilos. Plus a carry on of 7 kilos, with very restricted dimensions, plus a handbag or laptop. So by the time I take my CPAP machine in its bag, that’s it – no other carry on gear! SHOOT! So much for taking my featherweight and doing some sewing…
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Back to bed for me now. I was doing really well with recovering until the dog accidentally landed right in the middle of my tummy this afternoon. (She was chasing a ball. Tends to get a bit oblivious to anything but BALL!) Nice cuppa tea and a good lie down, that’s the ticket.
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Did you say something Caity? I’m sorry. All I heard was the word “featherweight”. HOLY COW!! You have a featherweight??!
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Glad you have booked your tickets. THe anticipation is half the fun of a break away. I am sure Adelaide must have some great fabric shops!
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Not sure how many fabric shops I’ll see, since it’s right over the Christmas/New Year period when everything is shut. But no sewing machine for 18 sleeps – arrrggggh!
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Kirsty, would it upset you to know I have TWO featherweights? One is American, I must get around to looking into having it converted…she’s called Betty; The other is a Sottish made girl, she’s Elspeth. (I spent so much time with her she had to have a name!)
And are they fabulous? Well – um – YES! The attachments are awesome (Singer make the best rufffler/pleater I have seen) and the stitches are beautifully formed. I used to use my FW a lot when I was making small dolls and very miniature quilts – it can make from 6 to 30 stitches to the inch.
And even though it’s straight stitch only, it’s one of my favourite machines to use. It even smells nice! And of course it’s so portable – I don’t move the Goddess Pfaffalina unless she’s going for a service, and most of the other machines are too heavy for me to even lift at present, let alone carry…
I also have an Elna Grasshopper (the very first machine Elna ever made) as well as assorted old Singers… and a few other Elnas (but not a Lotus yet – although I think I’ll be trading for one soon maybe!) plus a couple of treadles (one my Grandmother’s, one my Great Grandmother’s.)
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Caity has sewing-machines because TeaBot 5000™ got all the guitars.
Constance J Woodle has a collection of foam-filled tennis balls.
KitTern collects Z’s, generally in the sun.
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