Made It! At Least I Didn't Go A Whole Calendar Year Without Posting

I received a comment from Michael asking if I had abandoned the blog, so figured I better let everyone know I'm still around.

Yeah-yeah, bad blogger, no 2022 updates.  But I haven't abandoned sewing machines.  See-

Sewing Room (Slow) Progress Update

 I do continue to work on the sewing room.  Progress isn't quick.  Me and the boy did a bit of work last year, but kind of lost most of the year to the plague and building out some more gardens.  This winter has been looking at heating solutions.  I had finally settled on a wood stove, then found out that wood stoves aren't allowed in buildings in which gasoline powered vehicles/equipment are stored.  Bummer.  Since I'm limited to 40 total amps of electrical it makes it hard to stick with electric heaters permanently.  So still looking.  But the we did get the walls nearly complete.  So here's the current layout.

Great British Sewing Bee Series 6

First off props where they are do.  Series six was much better than series five.  Joe has reigned a little of his more cringe inducing behavior that was a massive distraction for me with series five, becoming an overly annoying clown (see photo) less often.  He's still not in the same league as Claudia Winkleman, but at least he is less horrific.

The Sewing Room Is Coming Along

I've shot some videos up in the sewing room, usually just showing the five or six square feet that wasn't silted under with crap.  This week the boy is on spring break from e-school so rather than just watch him play Mega Death Killer 39 for another fourteen solid hours, I dragged him up to the Sewing Room and we got some work done.

Great British Sewing Bee - Revisited

Oh well, it's still the only show on TV that has a bit of sewing in it I guess.  Series 6 is on the way, so here's what I thought of series 5.

It's Been One Of Those Years

Hi all.  Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still around.  Got distracted by life (and Warcraft) for a while.  Have a few posts in the mill, not sure how soon they'll get up but quick run down includes a couple of Singer 101s, (Yay! my 01 collection is complete).  Also, some sewing projects (yep I'm sewing masks for our local hospitals).  I missed the NETOGA last year because of a minor family medical issue that forced, forced I say, me to ride my motorcycle to Oklahoma for an unscheduled vacatio- umm... emergency visit.  So I have a bunch of flying geese blocks I need to unload at some point, d'oh.  Still doing charity sewing each month, though we are on hiatus until social distancing is eased.

As like most everyone else we are sitting tight and not getting out much at all, but all here are good.

Do all you need to stay healthy.

Tuning Up The 401, Again. Supergirl Is Pure Fantasy

This 401 has been sitting on the shelf next to Black Swan's cabinet for a few months now, right next to the 301.  I had brought it in to do some zig zags to overcast some raw edges.  It didn't go well and I put a zigzagger on Black Swan to do the work.  Today I decided to see what was up.

Shopgoodwill.com Would Be Funny If It Wasn't So Sad - 221 (I won't say Featherweight, I won't!) And Jinyun Qilong Manufacturing Knows Awesome

I kinda like Shopgoodwill.com when I don't outright hate it.  I don't buy a lot off it, but it's good for picking up stuff that needs some work.  For some reason the shoppers on the auctions there will pretty much ignore anything with problems while going hog wild on the exact same object that doesn't list issues.

Case in point:

The Great British Sewing Bee Is Back! ...please be better, please be better.

I just saw this post on Simply Sewing. It looks like the best sewing show ever is currently filming its fifth season after BBC and the production company made friends again.

From Joe Lycett's Twitter Feed

One Of The Best Guys I Ever Met

I was digging around for some photos of a period outfit I did today and came across this one from around 2006.

Under a year! YAY!

So, here's what happened.  I forgot what account I was using for Blogger.  I've been scratching my head for a few months wondering why, when I logged on, my blog didn't show up.  Oops.

Okay so now this is fixed here's a preview of what's coming:

Singer 29K73! Oh yeah.  Next to Black Swan, 29s have been on my 'please, honey, can I?' list.

Yet another 66, but this one is in a parlor cabinet.  Well out of it now, but it'll go back in for pictures, then get yanked out and Black Swan will have a new home.

128 and 221.  Okay, yes, Featherweights are junk.  But my sister really wanted one, so I bought it for her. In return she gave me a 128 in a bent wood case.  I came out ahead.

I think there are more, I'll have to dig around and see.

We are still getting reorganized from the move (9 months later), so I have to dig out the camera and find some place to do photos.  But they are coming.  Promise.

A year without posts. D'oh

So I haven't posted anything new in a year.  Wow.  Actually was kind of a busy year.  Philmont Scout Ranch with the troop ate up most of the year.  I did manage to get some new things though.  Those posts will be up later today.  For the restoration projects, they all kind of sat on the shelf for the year while prepping for the Philmont trip.  The 66, 127 and Domestic are all in the exact same condition as when I last posted in Jan of 16, and my wife still hasn't given me a beating over them.  Am I the luckiest guy in the world or what.  Anyway, trying to get back into the swing of things.

Speaking of the wife, I made her a chemise for Christmas, so that might buy me some leeway.  Will be finishing up her bespoke wool slacks in the next few weeks as well.  Hmmm maybe I can leverage that into a 301?  I would have said an Improved Family but... hehe... that post is coming.  Still no 115 though.

When worlds collide

Picked up the Evapo-Rust this morning.  Getting my plan of attack together for the cleaning that's next on the agenda.  Besides sewing machines I also tinker around with my motorcycle.  I decided to combine the two and here's what I came up with