Once Again, I Need Assistance in identifying these feet. I’m trying to go through my boxes of sewing stuff, and organize everything, but I found these and I’m not sure what they are. I think the three that look the similar are hemming feet, but not sure about the other ones? Can I get some help, please.
As I’m sitting here waiting for my hamburgers to finish cooking, I’m wondering what on earth can’t Joan do. I swear. She is amazing! I’m looking at her outfits and thinking about all of the lavish colors, and all of the lavish threads I can work on that crazy quilt with! Seriously, her outfits are inspirational. It probably also doesn’t hurt that is is very easy on the eyes, and she’s one hell of an actress!
Here is some fun to start off the week! Hope everyone enjoys!
I did some house work today, but not nearly enough. I wanted to get my third bedroom upstairs organized, but there is just so much paperwork to go through. Also, I need to buy a shredder. I have checks from the 70s as well as other paperwork that I still have to go through. Happy times! I get paid on Friday, so maybe I’ll go and pick one up. Well, now that I ma secretaried out for the day, I’m about to go and hop on machine again. The plan is to finish the background and leave the bird and binding for tomorrow.
I started the quilting on the Zelda Commission. I’m doing a medium stipple with a bright blue thread for the background, and I’m going to do the bird in yellow. I might do some secondary stipples with a dark blue and a orange, but I’m not sure yet. I want to see how it all blends when it is jut the light blue and the yellow. Hopefully I’ll finish the quilting by tonight… or at least the blue part anyways. I’m trying to be optimistic. It’s my day off from work, and I’ve got a lot of housework!
After a crazy week of work, and then house work, I’ve finally gotten around to working on this quilt again. I just started pinning it, and hopefully I’ll have a little quilted by tonight. At work, I’ve been working on a couple of projects, including gathering the scraps for a crazy quilt, and I made a trivet. In fact, I’m going to be teaching a class on how to construct them. After the class I’ll post some of the samples! However, for the time being, here are the pictures of my quilt being pinned!
I currently have 2 commissions going at the moment. One I am waiting on fabric for, and the other is the Zelda Commission that I ave to quilt this weekend. However, after those, I think I might do a crazy quilt. I’ve never done one before, but we need some samples at work, and I think it would really show off the embroidery machines. What do you guys think? I’m not going to lie, I’m not even sure where to start with a crazy quilt, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out!
I’m not going to lie, computerized machines intimidate me. I see an embroidery machine and I get nervous. All I can think of is about what if I break the Motherboard? What if my tension is off? What if it only sews backwards? I’m terrified! I look at the machines surrounding me in my room and I know that if one of them has something wrong with it, I can take it all apart and put it back together. (Trust me, I’ve had to do it to some of them.) I can take apart the thread tension disks and put them together. I can take apart my bobbin case and adjust the thread tension there. I can clean the gears, I can buff the needle plate. I can do it all… to a mechanical machine anyways. Continue reading
Since I just figured out how to ruffle, I decided I should probably familiarize myself with the other feet associated with my machine. So I dug these out. They came with my machine, but I have no idea what they are… anyone know?
As the title reads, I sewed a ruffle today! I have never used a ruffler before, and it is kind of scary looking. It’s from the 40s and I was a bit intimidated. At first all of my stitches gad excess thread underneath, and it wasn’t too amazing to look at either, but I finally got it calibrated and it sews! I still have a few other feet, but I have no idea what they are. One of these days I’ll have to try them out!
Does anyone have any tips for using a ruffler?
Eric The Quilter 