A Few New Things, and what I'm working on

I've gotten a few new things in the last week.

1927 Singer 15

 I went to a rummage sale last Saturday, and found this machine.  It's missing some parts (bobbin case, bobbins, clutch washer, etc).  It came in a cabinet (rough shape).  The cabinet is in the garage.  I doubt I'll keep the cabinet.

I spent the afternoon cleaning this machine.  Most of these pictures are BEFORE I cleaned the machine.  She does have some pretty decals. 

nice faceplate, old style tension, no bobbin case or bobbin, or bobbin slide plate

motor, foot control and wiring.  NO I didn't plug her in

lots of lint jammed in there.  I never could get the feed dogs out

cleaned machine in a base that hubby made last month

Despite all the missing parts, I 'borrowed' a bobbin case from a Kenmore (standard series 15 style), and got this machine to stitch nicely.  Now to order her a few parts, and some new wiring and a new foot pedal.



Yesterday I was asked to give someone a ride.  On the way home, I decided to stop at a thrift store.  I found this box.

Singer Monagrammer

for slant shank, zig-zag machines

everything was in the box, including the Styrofoam to protect the parts

every disk is there

This monogrammer will work on my Singer 401A slant shank sewing machine.  Woohoo!  I probably won't have time to play with this until early next year.

I also found a cute teapot that I just couldn't resist.

teapot

I love his antenna.  Isn't he cute!

I have been working in my sewing room.  I started some Christmas tree mini quilts.  I've appliqued around everything, and stitched all the ornaments onto each of the trees.

3 Christmas tree mini quilts

 I'm taking a break from sewing the binding on these.  They should be finished soon.  Two of these will be 'flying' off to Alaska soon.  One for my son, and one for his fiance'.  My son asked me to mail him a little Christmas tree for this year, when he moved to Alaska (like I'm going to pay a fortune to mail an artificial tree).  This wasn't what he asked for, but, it should work.  They can hang them on their walls (she is in a dorm, so, not much room).  I'm keeping the 3rd one for my sewing room.

Tomorrow is a Shop Hop.  6 quilt stores. Other than some backing for more table runners, I don't plan on buying much, since I don't need anything.  We'll see. 

Finishes! Starts! and Treasures! (& Teapot)

I finished this quilt top for Quilts of Valor this past weekend.  It is sewn on my Singer Spartan hand crank.  Sorry for the bad colors in the picture.  It is much prettier than it looks.  I started another one like it in reds, whites and blacks today at the QoV sew-in.

Quilts of Valor quit top

I also finished the Valentine blocks that I showed last week.  Again, sorry about the bad colors in the picture.

Valentine block

I also started a few things last week.  The first is a sewing machine base for my Singer 66 that I will turn into a hand crank, now that it has a base.  I painted the base black, to match the machine.  I will add a Singer decal to the base soon.  I also purchased an extension for this base. 

base for sewing machine, also, extension for base

base with extension attached

I am making this little quilt for a lady I work with.  Her birthday is later this month.

Kari's quilt top

I received this bentwood sewing machine cover from another lady.  Isn't she pretty!

bentwood sewing machine cover

I ordered more spool pin doilies from Linda when I ordered the sewing machine base.  Here are the lovey spool pin doilies I received.

Spool pin doilies

I decided to visit a few thrift shops on Friday as a birthday present to myself.  I was almost through the last shop when I turned a corner and saw this lovely beauty.

hand pieced and hand quilted Grandmothers flower garden quilt

close up of Grandmothers flower garden quilt

I of course 'raced' down the aisle and grabbed this!  SCORE!  The border fabric is frayed, and some of the flowers are disintegrating, but, she's still in pretty good shape, and, she's lovely!  She was also half price!  Woohoo!  Less than $5 for this quilt!  Then, I started to see if there was anything else on the aisle, when I came upon this quilt.

Carpenters Wheel vintage quilt

close up of Carpenters Wheel block

Another vintage quilt.  This quilt is in really good shape.  I wish there was a label on one of the quilts, but, there isn't.  This quilt was less than $10.  Talk about some great birthday finds.  I also found a cute (and tiny) teapot.  I haven't seen many teapots at the thrift stores lately.  This one was marked half off.

tiny teapot

tiny teapot

I put the phone in the last photo so that you could see just how tiny this teapot really is.  I couldn't even put this in the basket for fear that the lid would fall thru the holes.  The decals aren't fuzzy, just in the picture, sorry.
 
This was my weekend, how was yours?  Also, don't forget about my Triple Whammy Giveaway!  You still have time to enter.

PS:  The sewing machine base and extension table, and the spool pin doilies can be found at Linda's store, Lindalu's Treadles and Treasures.   If you don't see the doilies, just ask her.