Nayu's Craft Time #141 My Cat Likes Scrambled Egg

I'd love a sewing machine like this! Must decorate mine with stickers...

Morning/afternoon/evening! I think that covers all the time of day you may be reading this. It's been a busy week, mostly me not being 100% and able to come online. I did do some paperwork, which took a few hours...and then several more hours as I had printer issues. I've revived my printer, got new toners, then nearly broke it when a toner accidentally slipped inside the printer and I had to put my hand in to find it. Thankfully it worked after that ^o^ I did get a lot of ink on me, but it's all washed off now. 

I definitely want a Hello Kitty printer!!!! This is adorable!!!! Guess I've found something else to put stickers on to make it cute...

Annoyingly I haven't really done any more machine sewing. I'd really hoped to do some today but aside from blogging I'm taking it easy as my body doesn't like how the weather is at the moment. I can't push myself as I'm out all day tomorrow crocheting with a friend, which is always fun :) Yes I am back on the crochet! Slowly easing back into doing it, it's very therapeutic and great for when I can't think straight as it's the same stitch which I know off by heart. As for my cat...

How I discovered my cat likes scrambled egg. 

Here's Belle looking super cute!

One evening this week I made scrambled egg for dinner. I was looking forward to eating it on fresh white break with cress (my latest food addiction), salt, pepper, and butter. I make it in the microwave, and was tipping it out of the pan onto the plate, when it decided to bounce off and land on the floor. It was a classic moment that made me and my family laugh, as the round scrambled egg lay staring up at me! 

Scrambled egg mostly looks like this (online pic)

I obviously wasn't going to eat it, so picked it up, then my family wondered if our cat would like it. I gave her the part which didn't touch the floor, and she really liked it! The catch is she only likes it warm...I gave her a bit more later when it was cold and she didn't touch it. So now whenever I  make it I'll give her a little :) 

Nayu's Craft Time #121 Exploring machine sewing!

I'd love to get to the skill level of making something like this one day!

For those on Twitter this post includes which craft I've been experimenting with today - it's machine sewing!

My machine! It will be covered in fun stickers soon.

I have a beautiful machine which I got several years ago (doesn't quite make tea, but has loads of what I call 'line' designs as well as the alphabet, plus can cope with quilting too. Due to health issues I haven't really been able to use it until now. You don't need a super duper one, just a few stitches & maybe a button hole function is all you really need. When you buy one do look around for advice on what to get, and buy the best you can in that price range. If I went on looks I'd have bought a Hello Kitty sewing machine!

So cute!!!!

So this morning, after a few other chores I set about using it. I'll say it rather than her because while I've named my machine Rinoa, after Rinoa in the game Final Fantasy 8, I don't want to confuse anyone (or myself...)

Anyway it took a good 20-30 mins to figure out how to thread the machine - that was with the instruction manual open! Oh, and it took 5 minutes for me to remember where I'd put the instruction manual: I took it off the bookshelf, then made it vanish into thin air. Turns out it had slid down something. >_<

I sewed 3 of the edges together, turned it inside out then tried a new finishing stitch on the edge. Need practice, but not bad!

Finally ready for sewing I tried the first stitch. It didn't go wrong! Not sure what I was expecting, but happily tried running stitch for a while. Then tried the reverse stitch, handing for securing thread on an item. After a lot of playing here's some of what I did (the rest isn't suitable to be shown, as I went wrong in trying to create a mini patchwork. 

I was using this as a trial - I wouldn't normally do pretty patterns on patterned fabric. I tried flower type things, leaves, stars, and the failed hearts.

I tried and liked some of the fancy stitches - wasn't so keen on the hearts, but think I'll use the ones I did try on the projects I have planned for my shop. What those are I'm not saying until I have successful prototypes! I promise you'll get to see it all here on NCD first!

Here's the other side of the sewn together trial item, you can view the patterrns much clearer!

Time for a few more chores then anime & reading!