Refinishing this Singer Art Deco Sewing Machine Cabinet was a labor of love for my husband, Dave. Hours and hours went into disassembling, sanding, reassembling and refinishing to bring her back to her former glory. Before I show you how she looks now that he’s finished working his magic, let me show you what it looked like when we brought…
Another of the major projects that I wanted to get done this year was recovering the cushions for our lawn chairs. We bought the set of 5 chairs in the fall of the year 2000 when we first moved to Maui to give us something to sit on (both out on the lanai and inside the house) while we waited…
Continuing on from Part 1 of Christmas on a Budget Series – Buy Christmas Fabric Only When On Sale I’ve been sewing for over 40 years, but the great thing about Christmas themed fabrics is that you don’t have to be an experienced seamstress to create really pretty Christmas gifts or decorative items for your home. For example, here’s a…
I very rarely buy fabric when it’s full price. On those occasions when I find I need fabric to complete a project and it’s not on sale, I try to find a 40% off coupon to use. But most especially, I never buy Christmas themed fabric at full price because it comes on sale at least twice a year.  Right…
One of the most fun things about FNSI (Friday Night Sew In) is getting to discover other crafting, sewing, quilting bloggers. Today Bobbi announced the winner of this month’s FNSI and encouraged everyone to go check out Karen’s blog Sew Much 2 Luv. I’m so glad I followed Bobbi’s advice. Karen’s blog was such fun to read back through but…
Most tutorials for sewing strips together to make quilt bindings tell you to line the end of the strips up perpendicular to one another like this: Then you are instructed to draw a diagonal line from the top left corner of the top strip to the right corner of the bottom strip like this: Then you are told to sew…
I don’t know if you noticed but a while ago I added a new page to my blog called 2011 – The Year of Getting Things Done. See it up there between the “Home” and “About” tabs? On it I’ve listed all the projects that I’ve completed so far this year and projects that are in need of completion. As…
I found some treasures in the drawers and bench seat of the Art Deco sewing machine cabinet. This small envelope is just one of them. And inside… Four and a half sheets of unused embroidery transfers. I’m thinking I’m going to have to do those little chore girls in redwork on 10 or 12 inch blocks and then make a…
Back in this post, I mentioned in passing that I had recently purchased this vintage Singer 15-91 off of ebay. Since it arrived, I’ve been searching for a cabinet of it’s own to put it in. Dave and I and our son have searched through several local antique/junk shops, never finding exactly what I was looking for. I wanted something…
Over the weekend, I got the flying zebra baby quilt and one of the child-sized quilts hand basted. Dave’s away on a contract for a few days, which means that it won’t matter if I have a larger quilt taking up residence on the dining room table for a day or two, so I decided to baste my scrappy nine…