Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The new, the old and the future...



Well hello!  FINALLY I got the site to allow me to download photos!  Just took all day for it to work!  
A little about what  I have been doing.  
I have been quilting, but it is a surprise so I can not post anything on it yet!  I did come across a great find at a yard sale we drove by.  It was $10 and I talked her down to $8!  What a steal! 
It looks to me to fit a vintage Singer sewing machine.  I have a great machine that my brother found for me at a yard  sale for only $10 (!!!!) that I thought would fit, but it is about an inch to long.  He found me a Singer 328k in the original box.  Sturdy, pretty little beast!  It works great!  So I have been searching for hints as to what this little cabinet might have held.  It has a knee pedal that was attached to the inside of the right knee area.  Kind of an interesting little thing!
  

It folds out to make a wide sewing surface.  I would like to convert it to fit the Singer 328k, but first I am going to try to figure out what machine SHOULD go in here! It's a little rough, but I think with a little love and care I can make it a great sewing table!!!


Knee pedal!  It is a BOCO Model 66 with a plug for the motor and for the light!  I have never seen anything like it.  I don't think I would like to sew with knee pedal! 



My new love of hand embroidery has been keeping me busy as well.  This is a great tree that I got from Aimee Ray's Doodle Stitching: The Motif Collection.  
I am starting to really like stitching trees.  As of now I am working on a tree designed by Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching.  She has a great new way of designing embroidery that is more modern.



I  purchased a book called Redwork from The Workbasket.  
I liked this book because it had a CD that accompanied the book that I could use to stitch out the patten from my embroidery machine.  It also has the patterns available for hand embroidery.  It has a wide variety of patterns that fit a number of occasions.  With a little technical help from a friend, I got the CD to work with my machine and the machine stitched this out:


I like the look, but it is almost too perfect!!  You can tell from the back that it is machine stitched.  In a pinch I would do the machine, but I am really enjoying the hand stitched look now!  

I have yet to finish my daughter's ladybug quilt.  It is in my "to do" pile, along with the tree skirt!  Once I start them, I make myself finish them!  So I am keeping myself out of trouble with sewing and potty training my three year old son!  What fun!  
Happy Crafting!!  :-}

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