My latest restoration project is “Ruby,” a Singer 99K model from 1927, serial number Y4432093. I was so impatient to start working on her that I forgot to take any “Before” photos. So here she is, just being beautiful in the “After” stage. Ruby came to me in a sadly neglected state. She was very [...]
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Ruby Steps Out
Posted in Sewing machines, tagged Quilting, Sewing, Singer 99K, Singer 99K hand crank, vintage Singer sewing machine on February 1, 2012 | 6 Comments »
New Year’s Girl
Posted in Sewing machines, tagged 1937 Singer sewing machine, Quilting, Sewing, Singer 15K80, Singer treadle sewing machine, vintage Singer sewing machine on January 1, 2012 | 11 Comments »
I’ve been having fun with my new sewing machine that we brought home yesterday. It’s a Singer Model 15K80 from 1937. When she’s put away, she looks like this: I cleaned and oiled the machine itself and lubricated the treadle irons, and she is so quiet now! She has a lot of wear to her [...]
Updated Singer Serial Number Information
Posted in Sewing machines, tagged ISMACS, Quilting, Sewing, Singer 160th Anniversary, Singer certificates, vintage Singer serial numbers, vintage Singer sewing machines on October 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
ISMACS (International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society) has recently made the vintage Singer serial numbers available on their website. At the Singer Sewing Company website, you can get a certificate for your vintage machine using the serial number. It’s really good fun! They also have lots of historical information and pictures relating to vintage Singer sewing [...]
Today’s Sewing Machine
Posted in Sewing machines, tagged Quilting, Sewing, Singer 15K sewing machine, vintage Singer sewing machine, vintage Singer treadle sewing machine, vintage treadle sewing machine on September 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Today I’ve been sewing on “Lavinia,” my Singer 15K treadle machine from 1907. First I cleaned her and oiled her, and then we made some Maple Leaf blocks. She sews such a lovely stitch! I’ve been trying to determine which sub-category this Singer 15 fits into — I know she’s not a 15K80 or 15-96. [...]
Sweet little Vibra sewing machine
Posted in Sewing machines, tagged antique sewing machine, cylindrical shuttle, Jones CS sewing machine, Quilting, Sewing, sewing machines, Vibra sewing machine, vintage handcrank sewing machines on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My latest project has been to clean and restore this sweet little Vibra handcrank machine to good running order. She really is small — her base is 12 inches long, 6.5 inches wide, and 1.5 inches tall from the bottom of the cast iron feet to the machine bed. She is badged as a “Vibra,” [...]
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 | 15 Comments »
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 [...]
Gone Crazy (Stash Report)
Posted in Stash Reports 2011, tagged Monochromatic Challenge, Quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report on April 17, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I’ve been really good with my buying and have sewn mainly from my stash for more than two years now, ever since I found Judy on the Internet and joined the Stash Busting group. However…in the last couple of weeks, I have been very naughty. It all started with this fabric, which I just had [...]
Chocolate brown progress
Posted in Design Wall Monday, Nigel the quilting dog, tagged Chocolate brown quilt, Design Wall Monday, Monochromatic Challenge, Quilting, rail fence quilt, Sewing on March 14, 2011 | 10 Comments »
My Chocolate brown project for Judy’s Monochromatic Challenge is turning out to be lots of fun, and the blocks are going together very quickly — almost as fast as I could eat real chocolate! And that’s really fast! Nigel the quilting dog is helping to plan the layout. He likes the “design floor” much better [...]
A Chocolate Quilt (Design Wall)
Posted in Design Wall Monday, tagged brown quilt, Design Wall Monday, Monochromatic Challenge, Quilting, rail fence quilt, Sewing on March 7, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Brown is the colour for March in Judy’s monthly Monochromatic Challenge. It’s difficult for me to think in shades of brown at this time of year. When March arrives, I start thinking in pastels and Easter egg colours. Maybe I could think of this project as the Easter chocolate?! Hmmm, chocolate bunnies and chocolate Easter [...]
Free Motion “Freeze Frame” (Stash Report)
Posted in Stash Reports 2011, tagged free motion quilting, Judy Laquidara, meandering quilting pattern, Quilt for an Hour, Quilting, Sewing, stash busting, stash report on March 6, 2011 | 20 Comments »
I just finished quilting the “Freeze Frame” quilt that some of us made with Judy Laquidara as part of her “Quilt for an Hour” project in 2009. I practised and practised my free motion meandering on my domestic sewing machine until it looked right to me, and then I just jumped in and did it. [...]
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