I love to sew, mainly quilts and bags. I am 66, married to Fred and have one son, Matthew, who is 27. I enjoy embroidery and applique and prefer to machine piece and quilt my projects. I love my vintage Singer sewing machines especially my Featherweight 222K. I’m enjoying treadling on my 201K Singer and I collect Miniature Sewing Machines and currently have three Essex , one Singer 20, one Singer 40, two Vulcan Miniatures and my latest, a Grain. My love of sewing I believe comes from my Grandmother - I still have the drawings she made for me to embroider on tea towels many many years ago!
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Sunday, 5 June 2011

MISSOURI STAR

BLOCK # 19  -  MISSOURI STAR

and here's another one!   I'm not overly pleased with my piecing on this one - they were tricky little pieces to handle... might have another go later.   One thing I have noticed as I'm sewing tonight... the Bright Light makes such a difference to how I see the walking foot and edge of fabric!  I think my 1/4" seams will be so much better now that I can actually see what I'm doing:-)

It's amazing just how much of my Civi War fabric collection I have used in making these blocks.  I'm mainly working with 10" squares and a small amount of yardage - hence my weird and wonderful selection of fabrics in some of the blocks... but in the end I think it will all go together nicely.

I bought myself an absolutely wonderful present today but I won't tell you what it is tonight...... I will set it up tomorrow and take some photos and then I'll post about it.  I can tell you that it's really old and I love it already!!!

Happy Sewing!!