Something New in my House, That is Very Old at the Same Time

I have my grandmother's Singer treadle machine now. My mother let me have it now and I have been so excited.

I have her set up in my family room next to the kitchenette.

I have cleaned and oiled her. I also, with the help of my grand daughter Lizzy, replaced the leather belt with a poly tubing that works wonderfully. At the same time Lizzy and I replaced the belt on my Ginza treadle machine.

I have used furniture polish on her cabinet but I think she needs more to restore her.

I was having problems with the tension. The thread that was in the bobbin was extremely old and a very course cotton. When I switched to my regular thread I had very bad tension with the thread looping up on top so I knew I needed to adjust the bobbin tension. I tried and tried but could not get the slide plate off and therefore could not get to the tension screw.

I looked and looked online to find out how to get the slide plate off and to adjust the bobbin tension. Finally I found two separate websites to help me with these issues.  I took off the slide plate which was a bit tricky but now seems very easy. Then I took out the bobbin holder which also was a bit tricky getting out and back in but I was able to finally get the correct tension.  I have a lovely seam.

I will be having my Mom come over to treadle away. This is the machine she learned to sew on. Her Mom bought this machine when my Mom was born, in 1933. She has fond memories of this machine.
Now this machine runs beautifully. Even after being in a storage unit for over 20 years.

Not only will I keep Scrappin away I will also be treadling away. I will show some of what I am working in this respect soon.

What Progress is Being Made?

I have been very busy in the Quilt Studio but because I was having trouble with my computer and pictures I was not able to post last week. I was very frustrated until my daughter in law, Chelsi, fixed my problem.

This is the quilt on my design wall right now.

I need to make more half square triangles for this quilt. 

This quilt was on my design wall but has been quilted and I am hand stitching the binding down now.  I will post on this quilt when it is completed and I have taken pictures.

This quilt was on my design wall before the zig zag quilt pictured above

. It is now loaded on the HQ and I am trying to decide how I want to quilt it. I will post more on this quilt later.

These blocks were worked on during our vacation 2 weeks ago.

I completed around 20 blocks. I started these blocks in a class in Panquitch, UT in June. They are called Granny Squares and I think they are beautiful blocks.

I have been very busy in the Quilt Studio but have been very errant in reporting my progress here.

I will keep on Scrappin!

Quilt of Valor Completion-2015

I am happy to say that I have the final Quilt of Valor completed.

This quilt is exactly like the first Quilt of Valor I finished in May.

The star points on these stars were left over from my Smith Mountain quilt.that I made a couple of years ago.

I decided I needed to use up these points because they were already made and they would make a wonderful Quilt of Valor.

I backed this quilt with a light blue flannel with little stars.  I quilted it with the spiral squares pantogram. This quilt needs to be delivered across the street to my neighbor soon

I am so glad to have finished these quilts so I am now concentrating my energy and time on the big project I have going now.  This project consists of many quilts.

.I will keep on Scrappin!

A Little Progress

I am making a little progress in the Quilt Studio.

This is the last Quilt of Valor and it is on the HQ. I have started the quilting but I don't have time right now to finish the quilting this week. I had a busy weekend planned but that has changed now so I may get some time to finish up this quilt and move on to a grand daughters birthday quilt. Time will tell.

This quilt is on the design wall but has not progressed in the sense that you can see the progress by looking at the design wall.

These are the unit that are getting ready for the quilt on the design wall and soon I will get these blocks all together.

I have a bunch of 4 patches ready to be sewn and then I will make the blocks for this quilt.

I will keep plodding away.

Some Stuff that is Going on in the Quilt Studio

I have several things going on in the Quilt Studio at this time.

On the design wall is half of the blocks for a new quilt that was started in May.  It is for a special project and I am loving how it is turning out. The quilt is from Bonnie Hunter and is called Floribunda. I have loved this quilt ever since Bonnie showed us an antique quilt she had found and she replicated it. I didn't have time to do this then but I really wanted to use this pattern for this project.

This is the Grand Illusion mystery quilt from Bonnie Hunter and I am almost done with the outside pieced borders. This is a beautiful quilt and will be for someone special.

On my cutting table are pieces from the Floribunda quilt and also another new start which I haven't discussed on the blog yet. It is another special project and is from Jenny Doan. It is called Chevron and I think it will be great looking when I start getting it together. I am using recycled shirts and fabric from my stash only.

Well, enough for today.

Two More Completions

I have completed the two baby charity quilts that I had on the HQ.

These two quilt have the same main blocks with different spacer blocks.  The above one has green spacer blocks.

This one has white spacer blocks.  I used up the last of the fleece that I had bought a few years ago at a garage sale.

They are about 40 X 40 and I used the spiral squares pantogram. I think they will be very cuddly and will go as a boy or girl quilt.  Green and yellow are great for either boys or girls.

I will write about some more stuff going on in the Quilt Studio in another post.

Keep on Scrappin!

So What is Happening at Scrap Quilt Heaven?

I am happy to say I have been working very hard to finish blocks up that I have been using as Leader N Enders this last winter. I am tired of looking at and working on them so I finished up a bunch.

This is the blue flannel backing that I have ready to sew together for the last Quilt of Valor that is ready for quilting.  I will show this quilt when it has been completed.

This is my empty design wall. I just finished putting together the last block for a sampler quilt I was working on last winter and I put the top together yesterday. I will show it when I decide how I am going to do the borders to make it bigger.

This is my empty cutting table.

But I think I will work on cutting up these scraps today and get them into the correct bins.

These are the next three sets of blocks I am going to use as Leaders N Enders for the next few months. I talked about these in a previous post. I am getting excited to work on these new projects.

I have finished all of these blocks and have two tops together for 2 baby quilts. I have more of these blocks made but I will put them away for now and I will probably end up putting the extras into an orphan block quilt down the road.

These are the last units for the Grand Illusion quilt. I will now put the sashings on the blocks that I have all completed. This quilt is finally making some progress.

This is all I have this week but I am sure I will have some finished quilts to show soon.
Take care and Keep on Scrappin!