For Christmas I asked my parents for a sewing machine that I had spotted in John Lewis for £50. Having never sewed since secondary school I didn’t want anything too fancy in case all this craft making turned out to be just a fad.

Imagine my surprise on Christmas morning when I opened ‘a street surfer’.  It’s kind of like a surf board but you twist your feet to build up speed rather than kicking along the ground.

Those of you thinking this is some kind of  joke, my dad genuinely thought it would be a good idea to buy all my brothers, myself and my boyfriend a skateboard. Though much fun was had ‘surfing’ in a iced up skate park on Christmas morning, anyone who knows my aversion to any form of exercise can imagine this wasn’t going to be a long term relationship with the ‘death stick’ on wheels.

Luckily a sewing machine shaped present was lurking uder the tree aswell, otherwise this blog could be about my street surfing tricks and a whole lot different.

So meet the machine that I will be learning on and using to create all my exciting new projects.

After New Year’s my friend Julia revealed that she had been talked out of buying the exact same machine after the sales assistant told her it was for children. Be that as it may, at least when anybody asked me what kind of sewing machine I have I can tell them: a purple one.