Oil and Thread

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...

After successfully sewing the onesie for The Much Beloved I thought I deserved some night attire of my own.  I couldn't see myself in a...

It seems like onesies are ubiquitous at the moment even here at Oil and Thread where we seldom follow fashion.  According to the stats the ...

This handsome little machine is my Singer 28K.  It was my first and it was this machine that got me started on sewing.  On it I sewed my fir...

I had to do a little repair so I used the opportunity to get some photographs. This procedure is so much fun and so quick it is over all ...

This arrived last week.  It was just in time to make the buttonholes on the French back boxers .  I am rather taken with it for a number of ...

Here are the finished boxers.  I added the buttonholes using my new toy a Griest #1 template buttonholer for low shank machines (this means...