Oil and Thread

I think it is nice, sometimes, to not really know where I am going until I get there.  That is how it was with this piece of work.  I canno...

Alright I promise that, during my sabbatical from blogging, I did sew something other than aprons but for the time being that is what I a b...

This ruffled apron is separated from the first by about eighteen months of time.  The first was such a hit with the ladies of the family th...

One day early last autumn I got out the Singer 15K80 to do a quick job sewing some furnishing weight chintz.  The cotton thread I used was p...

Simplicity 0501 is a free download available  here .  It's one of those patterns where you mess about printing it on 25 sheets of pap...

After being cleaned and oiled I felt that the Singer 15K80 needed a work out so I ran these up. Liberty Boxer Shorts I picked the...

Remember the crooked makeshift spool pin the 15K80 had when it arrived?  If not see the photograph on the left for a reminder.  The picture...

I like parcels.  Even if I have a fair idea of what they are going to contain.  Yesterday when I got home there was a red and white card on...

Now that the Singer 15K80 is clean, lubricated and forming acceptable stitches my thoughts return to some of the things which make this mac...