For several years now, one of my favourite places to visit on the Internet has been a sewing machine history website called The Needlebar. It has (or possibly still has) a photo gallery of almost every sewing machine in the world, and I could easily spend hours there looking at the evolution of designs of [...]
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So Long to The Needlebar
Posted in Sewing, Sewing machines, tagged antique sewing machines, Sewing, sewing machine museum, sewing machines, vintage sewing machines on August 1, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Stash Curtains (Week 3 Stash Report)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2010, tagged Almost Paradise Batiks, Judy Laquidara, Northcott fabrics, Quilting, Ro Gregg, Sewing, stash report, velcro, window curtain on January 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Our weatherman says the UK is suffering the fiercest winter we’ve had in 30 years. I believe it. We’ve had snow on the ground since December 17, with more snow falling several times a week, and it’s only now starting to thaw. Our front hall is always freezing cold. It has a metal door (those [...]
Pillowcases for Christmas (Week 50 Stash Report)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2009, tagged free pillowcase patterns, pillowcases, quick Christmas gifts, Quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report on December 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This week I’ve been sewing 18 pillowcases for Christmas gifts for family members — everyone is getting two pillowcases each because I had lots of fabric! I used two of my all-time favourite fabrics, which I have been saving for a “worthy purpose” like this. Ribbons… and Cute Chairs… I’m not sure where I bought [...]
More Shopping Bags (Stash Report Week 48)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2009, tagged cloth shopping bags, free shopping bag patterns, Morsbags, Quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report, Tipnut blog on November 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This week I have been sewing more shopping bags for the Christmas fair at my daughter’s school. This is a great stash-busting project! I am only using new fabric from my stash, and I’m absolutely flying through the yardage! What fun! And I have discovered that my “what was I thinking when I bought that” [...]
Cloth Shopping Bags (Week 42 Stash Report)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2009, tagged cloth shopping bags, free shopping bag patterns, Morsbags, Quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report on October 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This week I’ve been making cloth shopping bags for the Christmas Fair at my daughter’s school, using fabrics from my stash. These bags are made using the free pattern at the Morsbags website and take a little less than 5/8 yard each to make. They go together quickly and easily, and when I took some [...]
Little Dress (Week 40 Stash Report)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2009, tagged child's dress, Quilting, Sewing, stash report on October 4, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I spent most of my sewing time this week making this dress for my little girl to wear to school on Monday. They usually wear school uniforms, but their year group is doing a history project, and she needed something “old-fashioned” looking to wear. It looks huge on the coat hanger! Here it is on [...]
Meet my Sylvia :-)
Posted in Sewing, Sewing machines, tagged Quilting and Sewing, Sewing, sewing machine, Singer 507, vintage sewing machine, vintage Singer sewing machine on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My “new” sewing machine, purchased on eBay, arrived today. I have named her Sylvia. She is a Singer 507, and she was made in 1975. She is very similar to the sewing machine I had in America before I moved to England. Sylvia came with a nicely-done instruction manual, which someone scanned from an original [...]
The Last Seam
Posted in Sewing, tagged Bears in the Farmhouse, fabric design inspired by Paul Klee, Judy Laquidara, Judy's Quilt-Along, Quilting and Sewing, Sewing on April 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
My Bears in the Farmhouse quilt top, now renamed “Bears in the Art Museum,” is finished! This project was part of Judy Laquidara‘s Quilt Along. Finished quilt tops by other participants can be viewed here. Judy said about 300 participants started the project, and more than 150 carried on through the final step. Thank you, [...]
Another UFO Finish
Posted in Sewing, tagged machine quilting, Quilting and Sewing, quilting stencil, Sewing, Stashbuster list, table topper, UFO Challenge, UFO finish, wall hanging on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve finished my second UFO for the Stashbuster UFO Challenge for 2009. It was originally planned as a wallhanging for our old house, and I started it in 2000 with blocks and scraps left over from the larger quilt featured in my homepage banner. We don’t really have a good wall for it to hang [...]
Victoria, Australia Bushfire Quilts (Stash Report #12)
Posted in Sewing, Stash Reports 2009, tagged Australia bushfire quilts, Bushfire quilts, HeartStrings Quilt Project, QAYG, QAYG tutorial, Quilt as You Go, Quilting and Sewing, scrap quilts, Sewing, stash report on March 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The HeartStrings Quilt Project group is making Quilt As You Go (QAYG) blocks for Jan MacFadyen of Victoria, Australia, during the months of March and April. Jan is a member of HeartStrings, and she will be finishing these blocks into quilts for Victoria, Australia Bushfire survivors. Volunteers estimate approximately 5000 quilts will be needed for [...]
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