Thursday, December 20, 2012

What Do You Sew On?


I could have used a treadle sewing machine today. Our power was out for a good part of the day due to high winds. Here in St. Louis we are getting the wind and dropping temperatures from the big winter storm pushing across the plains from Colorado to the Great Lakes. We are far enough south to have missed the snow. Not being able to sew, surf the internet, press fabric, bake cookies, or even read (due to the gloominess in the house), I cut out patches for the baby quilt I am working on and then took a long winter's nap. 

The goof balls who predicted the end of the world on December 21st can crawl back into their holes now. It is already the 21st on the other side of the world and there are no reports of the world ending. Tomorrow is the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year. Rejoice! The days will be getting longer again after then.

This evening I sewed up fourteen bow tie blocks for the baby quilt, so something useful was accomplished after all today. I sewed on my vintage 1941 Singer Featherweight this evening. What do you sew on?

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  1. I can remember my Grandmother`s treadle what a great machine that was, naughty Dad must have disposed of it, he should have passed it on to me!! Good to see you have now got the follower button.

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  2. Hello Mary Ellen,

    Hope you are keeping warm in the power cuts. Meanwhile, it is 4.45 pm here, the world is still in one piece and I'm binding my quilt on the Singer 15K treadle.

    Love,
    Muv

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    1. The power is back on, but it got quite chilly in the house by yesterday afternoon. I tried to think of all the poor souls who survived Hurricane Sandy and sad folks in Sandy Hook CT and not to "whinge" (as you say across the pond).

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  3. Hi Mary Ellen. When I started sewing my own clothes at the age of 12, I used my mother's Singer treadle machine. It was a fabulous machine. Even when my father bought me my very own electric machine a few years later, I still reverted back to the treadle sometimes when I wanted a consistent, reliable stitch. Lucky you, to still have such a machine and bravo that you are still using it.

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  4. It's a beautiful machine, and it's even better that you are able to use it!

    We had plenty of wind here too. It was quite a big system!

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  5. I have been thru a couple of new machines, but I'm sewing new on a machine from the 80's (probably) that I inherited from my neighbor. It's a New Home, a real basic model. And I love it, it's solid, no dropped stitches ever, it's just a good machine. Merry Christmas, ME!

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  6. I have been thru a couple of new machines, but I'm sewing new on a machine from the 80's (probably) that I inherited from my neighbor. It's a New Home, a real basic model. And I love it, it's solid, no dropped stitches ever, it's just a good machine. Merry Christmas, ME!

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