Dave spent the past few days taking apart and then sanding the Art Deco sewing cabinet and bench seat that we bought for my Singer 15-91. This ended up being a bigger job than he had anticipated. Not only did all the outside surfaces need to be sanded as expected, all the inside surfaces had to be sanded as well…
Most tutorials for sewing strips together to make quilt bindings tell you to line the end of the strips up perpendicular to one another like this: Then you are instructed to draw a diagonal line from the top left corner of the top strip to the right corner of the bottom strip like this: Then you are told to sew…
I don’t know if you noticed but a while ago I added a new page to my blog called 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done. See it up there between the “Home” and “About” tabs? On it I’ve listed all the projects that I’ve completed so far this year and projects that are in need of completion. As…
I found some treasures in the drawers and bench seat of the Art Deco sewing machine cabinet. This small envelope is just one of them. And inside… Four and a half sheets of unused embroidery transfers. I’m thinking I’m going to have to do those little chore girls in redwork on 10 or 12 inch blocks and then make a…
Back in this post, I mentioned in passing that I had recently purchased this vintage Singer 15-91 off of ebay. Since it arrived, I’ve been searching for a cabinet of it’s own to put it in. Dave and I and our son have searched through several local antique/junk shops, never finding exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something…
Over the weekend, I got the flying zebra baby quilt and one of the child-sized quilts hand basted. Dave’s away on a contract for a few days, which means that it won’t matter if I have a larger quilt taking up residence on the dining room table for a day or two, so I decided to baste my scrappy nine…
Today I’m working on sewing the quilt back for this scrappy nine patch quilt top: A larger photo of the quilt top can be seen here. I’m using a thrifted white cotton sheet for the back but it wasn’t quite long enough so I added a row of blocks made from the leftovers fabrics from the front. When I was…
Originally I had only cut enough of the flying zebra fabric to make a baby quilt. But when I realized I had enough left to turn the rest of it into two more child-sized quilts if I added a couple of horizontal strips in a coordinating fabric between the repeating print sections, I decided to go ahead and a make…
My entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival would certainly not qualify as the most beautiful or most intricately pieced or the most original. Its design is a simple one; flannel blocks from a bear print that I fussy cut alternating with a coordinating yellow flannel. Those blocks are framed with a single border cut from that same yellow flannel with…
Where we live in northwest Georgia, our winters are usually fairly mild and over-wintering vegetables can be a challenge. Our rental house has a cement slab foundation, so we don’t have a basement where we could build even a temporary cold room for storing them.  But over the past few years of living here, we’ve experimented and come up…