Before Leila arrived, I had to make a few re-arrangements in my house. There was a piano in the corner of the living room, well we just had to get rid of that, thank you Laura for picking it up :) I did like to play with it sometimes, but it was driving my housemates mad, as I can only play one song, which is Gary Numan's "Are friends electric". Yeah it is a brilliant song, but I was playing it constantly one weekend from 11 am from the morning until 2 in the afternoon, and then had a little lunch break, carried on until 10 pm. Nice isn't it. I was just so excited as I learned the song from youtube, that I wanted to keep playing it so I wont forget it. Anyway, Leila. After the piano went, I moved some furniture out from my room to the living room, emptied one corner which had all sorts of old crap from the people who haven't lived in this house for years. Then, finally I got a desk in my room (thank you Konrad), and then one Sunday, couple of weeks ago, after I was teaching a knitting workshop with Rachael at the Town Hall (international women's day), Leila arrived.
Leila is a Toyota KS 950. At the university I have been using Zippy Plus, Knitmaster and Silver Reel, when learning to knit. So there was a little new learning process with Leila at the start. A bit of frustration here and there. But I have gone trough quite a lot of stuck stitches with Leila, she is very good with that. And I am pretty impressed with myself that I managed to put the machine together. At the moment I am concentrating on an art project, but hopefully soon I get to try to make a garment with a machine, as I haven't done more than samples so far. I also have a double bed Toyota Ribber, but I thought I might need to go trough some tutorial at the University to use double bed domestic machine, as I have only used it couple of times a year ago. I think it is a good idea to learn the single bed Toyota first.
Now look at Leila, isn't she a beauty!
