Oil and Thread

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...

Dear readers and follows I am sorry not to have written sooner.  I really don't know where the time has gone.  More responsibility at wo...

I moved house twice in 2013.  I have been lucky in that both of the dwellings allow for a designated sewing room.  Some of you will remember...

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...