http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2016/02/great-minds-great-solutions.htmlRecently, Bonnie Hunter blogged about a solution to a common problem quilters have with the pedals on their featherweight sewing machines. You can read about it here:
I too dislike the tiny button pedal as it makes my toe cramp after a while. So I showed the picture to hubby....
and voila! I too have a new, easier to use foot pedal.
I've made a little progress on my Trip Around the World Quilt for my niece.
I've completed the first quarter of the quilt and was working on the second when my treadle decided to hiccup. For some unknown reason it decided not to stitch correctly. I tried suggestions from my online treadle group to no avail. I am now waiting for Ted, my Singer "doctor" to make a house call and diagnose the problem later this week.
The parish annual yardsale was last weekend and I worked all last week with the ladies of the parish getting everything set up. The room was full, the tables groaning and when we opened the door at 4pm on friday we had 137 people (yes we counted) stream in the door. By the time all was done saturday afternoon the tables were quite bare and our coffers were almost $4000 richer. And we still had to haul off 3 pick-up trucks and a trailer full of boxes and bags to the local thrift shops.
I even came home with a few lucky purchases!
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| another sewing table (although I have no idea which or what machine I will put in it. I just couldn't let it sit there or be hauled off to the thrift shop Also, a Jim Shore nick-nak... a cute singing dog |
While I was busy with the church yardsale my husband got busy working on that backyard tree stump/root again.... He has been cutting away at it since last July and finally removed the last remaining bit! Once we get the piles of dirt back in the hole, I will plant myself a flower garden this Spring. And hubby will begin work on the second stump (it's burried under the pile of dirt at the top of the picture!
