Around January 2016, Miss Galaxie was very worn out. I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess at the stitch count I had added in the preceding 6 months, but she was the most amazing workhorse! We had her repaired, but it was an expensive exercise, and she still struggled to do the type of embroidery that I required of her. I couldn’t afford another machine with the size of hoop that I needed on a very limited income.
Fate stepped in when I posted on a camping page about wanting to make custom t-shirts for my husband and me. A beautiful lady called Sharon joking asked me to make a funny one for her. I said I would have loved to, but my poor machine was not running well enough.
Unbeknown to me, Sharon secretly investigated the charity work that I was doing, and then wrote to Brother Australia in the hope that they could help. It was a week before Mother’s Day last year when Sharon, Tharrow, Judy (Sew Many Stitches NSW) and Mel (Brother rep for NSW and ACT), presented me with a brand new Brother NV2600 sewing and embroidery machine! My husband had kept it a total secret from me for over 4 weeks! Avasa (which means ‘My Home’) Crafts and Embroidery was born, and it really was quite by accident. Not something I imagined would ever happen.