look ma, no hands!

for my sewing class (which is really cool btw) i needed to get some materials so i went into town this afternoon to one of the sewing shops. i'm afraid the shop isn't very nice (they didn't have half the stuff i needed and weren't very helpful), but what they did have was a demonstration of the brother innovis 4000 d embroidery machine. i had never seen anything like it, it was awesome! basically this machine can embroider anything you like (well, i might be exaggerating a bit). it comes with a number of designs, but the really cool thing is that you can hook it up to a computer and use special software to make your own designs. all this for the modest price of €4500 (and that's without the software). cough.