Sunday, November 13, 2016

The Old School One

You may remember Lisa, mum and I started making a dress for Lisa a few weeks ago - well she wants to wear it to a wedding - on Tuesday! Needless to say we had done nothing further since the initial work, but this weekend it had to be finished!

My main sewing machine is still away being serviced, and the one I bought when I was teaching weekly has been playing silly games - so I dragged out an ancient Singer hand crank machine for the top stitching

 

And I hand stitched the hem and am rather chuffed that it's pretty invisible!

 

Not all old school this weekend though. The embroidery machine has been earning its keep with this pile of tshirts done

 

And a last minute present made a birthday girl very happy

 

And I've pinned a whole load more warm diamond blocks - I've even stitched a few on the Singer but my arm is starting to ache! I think I'll be back to hexies for a while until I get a machine back!

 

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