Keeping your machines sewing
By popular request, here is how my sewing space is organised. My "sewing room" is really a bay window space of our living room / kitchen combo. My main sewing table is the left triangular surface with the green machine sunk into the table. Here is a close-up of that space showing the hole: That… Continue reading My sewing space
These machines are installed in my sewing room and are being used all the time. Each machine has its own unique set of functions which are needed in different situations, so although "all the time" does not mean 24/7, it still means that these machines are needed regularly and should be ready, willing and available… Continue reading My evolving sewing crew – 4th edition
Yep, they are like busses - always arriving together. But five "new" sewing machines turning up within two weeks, that's a record! 😳 The interloper After I talked myself into "needing" an old refurbished Singer 27K "Paperclip", I accidentally got two instead of one. 😮 The first one is now known as The Interloper: it is… Continue reading Two paperclips, an in-betweener, a pique and a sleeping beauty
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Need? Probably not. Want? Ah, now we are getting somewhere... 😉 I currently have 12 lockstitch machines in active use, plus 3 overlockers, plus 1 little chain stitcher, plus 4 machines that need a little work to come into active duty. Do I really need another? No. My existing sewing crew covers almost all of… Continue reading Do I need another nice old sewing machine?
Finally, someone made a table for a free arm machine! Well, it is not a new table. It's a 1960s Husqvarna table designed for their free arm Vikings. As you can see, it's been well used and needs revarnishing - but we are not doing it in this 30C heat. 🙂 The table is collapsible… Continue reading A table for the free arm
I have four long bobbin machines, five if you count the little one too. Three are vibrating shuttle machines, one is a cylindrical transverse shuttle - all four "medium" tailors' machines. The fifth one is a Wittler hybrid - a transverse vibrating shuttle. These five machines between them not only can sew any fabric under… Continue reading My secret weapon
