Sewing Room Revamp - New Old Shelves

Hello

I have been having a bit of tidy up in my Sewing Room AKA The Conservatory, AGAIN.  I get it tidy, do some sewing and  then it looks like a bomb's dropped.

My neighbour has been having a clear out and she kindly gave me this little cabinet, perfect for housing my collection of oil cans (I know a bit weird but I think they are cute).

The lovely Sarah sent me a gift in the post, its one of her original paintings of a little mustard spoon.  Luckily I had a little easel that was just the right size to display it.  Here is Sarah's etsy shop Sarah Oatley

I had been keeping my vintage cases on a chair, they are full of material, sewing projects they keep the sun off the fabric to stop it fading.  I had bought some little clay plant pots online from a local shop, when I went to collect them I spied this little set of shelves through the door so on a whim bought them as well!  Think the idea of looking at the outside of shop went to my head! 

There was enough room for my Sylko and Trylko thread drawers (yes, they are full of cotton reels).  

The case on the top is full of things needed to service sewing machines.

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Sewing has taken a bit of back seat at the moment, the weather has been good and the garden has needed some attention.

Cheers

Sharon

English Paper Piecing - Hexie Quilt Finished.

Hello

Yeah, I have finally finished my Hexie Quilt.  It has taken some time.  

I started in 2017 with a jelly roll scrap bag and a good selection of cut strips from my stash.

These ended up in this little box as hexies ready to go.

The very first line.

This project has been on several holidays along with days out, sewing group, my summer sitting in the garden sewing and lots of winter days when I couldn't work.  In my defence of taking such a long time, there has been many other projects completed while this has been in the wings waiting.  I did finish it last year but had been putting off making it up into a quilt until this last week.

Trimming the edges after quilting diagonally along the edges of the hexies.

Used the Singer 201 in the table, this machine does such a good job.

The quilting shows up better on the back.  The gloves are really extra grip gardening gloves but they work brilliantly giving better grip on the quilt moving it under the machine.

Glad its finally finished.  Phew.

cheers

Sharon

PS.  In case anyone is wondering, there are 2500ish hexies.

Knitting Needle Holder made on Singer 222K

Hello

My friend's Mum asked me if I could make her something to hold her knitting needles in.

I didn't need any encouragement, any excuse to use my Singer 222K.

This is what I came up with.

Anita uses 8" needles, as I am not a knitter, didn't even know that needles came in this size!  Thought they were the long ones.

Hope she likes them.

Cheers

Sharon