The color for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge for March was yellow/ gold. Sadly, I was not as productive this month.
10 accuquilt yellow blocks
I only need one more of these scraptastic blocks to make a quilt.
This picture shows the basted block…
This was an experiment with hollow cubes…my measurements were a bit off. Notice the crooked bottom right corner. I know where I went wrong and need to fix it next time.
Hollow block with a twist…
I did not get a feathered star block made this month. I picked out fabrics, but it didn’t get cut out. Such is life!
April is pink. Time to dig into the scraps and get busy.
My wonderful mother-in-law gifted me this 1901 Singer sewing machine several years ago. I think it was in 2016. (That was the date on the receipt for the new belt.) At the time, I couldn’t get it to stitch. I gave up. My husband said that he has not seen this machine being used since before we were married…over 37 years ago.
127 model?
It has the original treadle. Everything moves freely…squeaky, but moving. Did you know that the treadle gets oiled, too?
It makes me sad when people turn these into a table base.
Someone painted the machine a lovely copper color and added new decals. They did add a layer of clear coat over the decals to protect them.
DecalsMy favorite!
This weekend I bought a book to help me get my iron lady stitching. The timing for the bobbin was WAY off. It only took two hours or so to figure that out.
Book of wisdom…lots of models…enough information for me…Bobbin case …could use some cleaning, too.
Now she is stitching like a dream!
The bobbin winder…humph!
The bobbin winder is still being a little difficult. It turns and spins, but the bobbin doesn’t…hmm. I added a small scrap of cloth under the spinning end. Voila…temporary success.
Last evening, I used temporary 1/4″ marking tape on the throat plate to mark the seam allowance. Now I am ready to sew.
