Smooth Sewing

 Sewed a quilt with my 201K last week - sews through the layers just perfectly! But I was getting a bit annoyed with the scratchy timber case, most of the lacquer  has worn off & it is rough in patches. Decided to do something about it today.

Gave the timber a light sand to remove the last bits of lacquer, then mixed up some ” cleaner/ restoration mixture” ( recipe from the Hand Tool Preservation Assoctiation, seen at the Lost Trades Fair. My son has used this mix to restore some hand tools found in Grandpa’s shed.)

Super impressed with how good the base looks now, and it feels soooo smooth (smells good too!)

Random Round Up featuring a dog, a bear, and a fish.

Hmm where have the last few weeks gone?heck where did March go?

So anyway, in the last few weeks - and in totally random order although I did select the photos in order, blogger has kindly mixed them all up… this is what I have been up to…

Wished The Dog a happy 3rd birthday yesterday!

Caught up with a crafty friend for a sewing challenge - draft a pattern & make  a graduation hood for her daughter’s Uni graduation next week. 3 hours & lots of laughs later we got there! One very weird shape, but came up great after she iron the bejeebers out of it! ( The bear was purchased fully dressed, but no hood)

The Dog, again.

Designed & sewed a quilt for a special retirement gift. Nearly done, just the binding to go now. Sewn up on the vintage Singer 201k

Graduation Bear, again. Hmm when I said he came fully dressed, of course that does not at all imply that he is wearing pants! 

 I drew a fish! Not a flower for a change - a brown trout, from a photo my H took of a fish he caught a while ago ( catch & release, but I’m sure some of them must have been big enough to eat …). Drawn for his birthday recently. Think I might try drawing some more fish, looks good on the brown paper.