Sewing Machines revisited.

I'm now down to just 4 machines. And I won't even ask how many you have .. :D
Early 1900's Gritzner Treadle Sewing machine. Made in Germany. This sweet machine will go to my middle daughter, Catherine. Eventually. Can anyone tell me anything about this machine, I'm unable to find out hardly anything on it, and ISMAC didn't have any information. Unless I was looking in the wrong area. :P

Next up is my Bel Air 600 knee peddle. It operates by pressing a lever with your knee.
This darling machine will go to my youngest daughter Tracy.

We still have the Wilson Rotary.

And the 1980's Janome Harmony, this is my go to machine for quilting. It sure does work well.

hmmm I need to take a better picture of it, right now it is busy meandering around "Easy Street"

The Bel Air is my piecing machine now, so will be getting used a lot from here on out when the Janome is busy.

Hope you all found some time today to put a few stitches into something. :D
Tammy Jean

ITS DONE, its really done and looks ...

sooooo purdy all set up. Wally redid the cabinet that the Wilson Rotary came in.

Before it was cleaned n refinished

Here is a before picture of it.

Refinished and cleaned up.

Here is the same cabinet after it was refinished and cleaned up.
I love it..








Thanks sooooo much Wally for taking the time to not only refinishing the cabinet but for also taking the time to get our Wilson Rotary up n running so smoooothly...

A cold windy day

It was fairly decent here all weekend long, although we did have rain and wind.

Yesterday Wally got my Wilson Rotary to working. And I worked on the tension to get it going really good. Tension is now all set on it, new needle in it, new thread in it along with getting the one bobbin I have for it filled. I set it up last night to do some sewing on it today and wouldn't you know it, Wally walked by it and just had to play with it, one more time before he headed off to bed, stepped on the foot peddle and made it go.. lol
Came in here to let me know he may have messed up the bobbin thread.. :P
So I go out there and sure enough the bobbin thread was a bit messed up,all tangled up and had a couple of knots in it. Oh well, got it untangled and snipped off the thread that was knotted up. Looked up at him, he said he was headed to bed before he got into trouble again.. smart man. ;-) although I did get a good laugh about it.

You see he has been working on it for a couple of weeks. When he hasn't been working 10-12 hrs a day.. So every time he would be anywhere close to it, he would roll the wheel around. Just to keep all the inner workings loosened up.. so he said lol
To be honest it really didn't surprise me any when he walked by it and just had to play one more time on it.. What he doesn't realize is that now, I'm going to cut some blue jeans into squares and rectangles and let him sew them together. ;-)

As for me I worked on the Easy Street mystery quilt over the weekend, and managed to put together a few of the big blocks after remaking some of the 4 patches, which have now turned into a leader/ender project.

 One of 16 - 15.5" blocks put together.

 One of 4 corner pieces put together, actually got all 4 of them put together.

One of the large triangle sections put together. Need 12








I still need to put together the other 15" block ( there will be 9 of these) that will be used to create this quilt, along with the other large triangles and the other 11 big blocks.

Easy Street link up #2

Its going on now at Quiltville. If you have not been there you need to go and check out how the other wonderful quilters are doing and to see what color choices they have made.

This week for our week 2 challenge was to do Flying Geese, now I have never done them and have never used the companion ruler nor the angle ruler, I have had them for months, saw them and thought of triangles.. lol
So this is going to be a slow process for me to get through all, 128 flying geese. :P

I have 30 of them done and have close to 10 that I have to rip apart and see if I can put them together right.

My color choice for this step is red, I have some reds in my stash. Enough to do this part of the mystery. But.... then again who doesn't like going to the local quilt shop. :D

 We took my Wilson Rotary machine to be fixed up. Hopefully it will be done within 2 weeks. While at the local quilt shop E-Jays, I found these 3 reds to add to my pile to use for Easy Street.

And I found this Black on White print that I just had to have to use also in Easy Street. Its cute, it will interesting to see where the owls pop up at.


So go on over to Quiltville and see what everyone is up to.

And have a wonderful sewing week.

Sewing Machines

Today I got an excellent surprise, my B/F went out to do some shopping, he came in a few hrs later all excited, like a kid on Christmas morning. lol
He couldn't contain himself. He had to just give me an early Christmas present.. And here she is:

 Its a Singer hard case.. open it up and we get to see this: A singer 99k

The serial number is EL 234778, so I go over to www.Singerco.com and look up the serial number, it says this machine was made in 1956. And she runs sooooo smoothly, already plugged her in and found my 1/4 seam allowance and marked it :D

Ohhhh I am sooo thrilled with this one, it has only one stitch but its a straight stitch, so will work wonderfully well for piecing quilt tops together.


And last weekend we went to the local Antique store here in Taylor, Texas and as we were leaving I happen to ask if he had any old sewing machines, he said yep, and headed to a back storage area, said it had been back there for 3 yrs. He dug it out and opened up the table. and I was amazed at what I saw. He wanted only $10.00 for the cabinet and machine together.. JACKPOT it did come home with me.

A Wilson Rotary, that has a working motor on it, it needs rewiring and we order some parts for it from Sewing Machine 221 sales
Now we are just waiting on those to arrive, before I take it to someone who knows how to do the wiring.





Yep I'm a happy camper tonight.. :D

I also have a Janome Harmony 4052.