Sewing Machines... I have a few sewing machines. I have 2 treadles.  The first one I bought off Kijiji, after bringing it home and cleaning it and oiling it up, a long time friend of mine came over and said he had an old treadle at home and didn't want it.  So this now is my second treadle.

 

It's a nice machine but does need some tender loving care.   It's missing one of the metal sliders under the foot.  I'll have to look around and see if I can find  a new one for it.

 

 

 

It also  uses little spindle like bobbins.  I have one of them but have never seen them before.

 

 

Another Day In Paradise

 

 

Sunday was such a beautiful day here in Montreal.  The sun was shining and the temperature was perfect.  Hubby coaches Hockey, he has volunteered to coach Midget for the last 5 or 6 years, it's his bonding time with the guys.  Sunday I dropped him off at the arena and knew he would be there for at least 2 hours.  So me and Buddy (my big dog) decided we were going for a drive along the lakeshore, as it was so beautiful out. I'll post some of the pictures over the next few days, it amazes me that here I am living in a major city that is also an isalnd, and yet there are still many "country" things to do.  we saw people walking along the water front, people riding along the bike paths, people fishing, boating and sailing.

 

 

Now you might here me complain alot about living on an island, now this is a big island, and to get off an isalnd one must go across a bridge.  The bridges, lets just say that I think most of our tax dollars go to repairing those bridges, and of course construction here is done during the summer.  The summer is when everyone heads off Island for the weekends.  To get off Island to the south there are 3 main bridges,  do construction on 1 of them and there are major traffic jams on the other 2 on Friday afternoons. As I have mentione before we have a trailer about 1 1/2 hours outside the city, that's on a day when the traffic is good, on a bad day....Ok enough of that, Summer is over and the trailer is closed up for the Winter and construction is over for this year.
 

So here is a picture of the area I drove along on Sunday.
  

 

 

I've lived in the same house for 57 years, my dad built it a fes years before I was born. I can still remember when the West Island was considered the country if you lived in the city, and most of the homes in the area were Summer cottages.  When I was young I still remember going to the top os our street and visiting a girlfriend that lived on a farm, and we would go horese back riding.  Now you would not find a farm anywhere on the Island.  Even tho we are in one of the suburbs of Montreal we are only a 20 minute car ride to the center of the city.  The population of the island is roughly 1,866,481 people, we are the largest city in Quebec, but are diffeent in many ways.  The city is mostly bilengual speaking French and English, with the West Island being mostly english.




 

Friday last day of the week!!! I love summer hours, get to leave at noon today, and we are off to the trailer. Going to take my hexagons to work on, and might make a beer can table this weekend weather permitting.  At the trailer most "artsy" things I do outside with juanita, she is the artist in the group.  We also need to finish the coupbards in the trailer, and I need to get some new curtains.

 

 

I bought this baby a few weeks ago on KIJIJI for all of $20.00.  She is a white 1315, last night I set it up in the sewing room.  Had trouble getting it to sew, but was able to find the manual for it, and after threading it right and taking out the4 bobin mechanisim, It started to sew fine. I love these old machines.

 



Another post

This is the third post today, am I ever on a roll.  I'm trying to make up for all the posts I haven't done over the last few months.  Last month seemed to be a month where I wanted to knit or crocheted.  I made the follwing baby blankets

 

 

 

 

 the rest of the material I bought at fabricville.  only a meter of each of the blacks.  I also liked this baby pannel, and picked up the blues/purples for a backing.

 



This is the machine I bought for $20.00 from Kijiji. Its a White 1315, I want to set this one up in the back room to sew with  last night I tried to get it to work, but it wouldn't sew it didn't seem to pick up the bobbin thread.  I did a search on youtube and found this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yt7TRZOs_U on how a sewing machine works.  I will try tonight to take out the babin and make sure its oiled inside and is turning and the thread is going aroung the bobbin.

Thursday ..one more to go

Only 1 more day this week to work.  I want to do some sewing, but hate the idea that I have to set the sewing machine up every time I want to sew.  So I've decided the "back room" which is just a room at the back of the house where the stairs to go up stairs are will be my sewing room.  Here is a picture of the material I bought the other day a fabricville since it was on sale.

There are 2 other pictures, some black/white and a baby quilt square, but they don't seem to want to upload right now.

 

Monday morning, sigh.  The weekend is over and it's back to work.  It's not that I hate work, but it means no time for quilting till the weekend.  I am in love with the new "baby" I adopted

I picked this up for 70.00 on Kijiji.  It is a lovely machine I oiled it all up and was even able to sew on it, but I need to get a new needle for it.

My biggest problem in life right now is that I hove som amny idea of projects I want to do, that there is just not enough time in a day to get 1/2 them done.  If I'm lucky I can retire in 3 years.  Seems like such a long time away but then all of a sudden you find that the time has just flown by.  I went to Fabricville last week with the best intentions.  I told hubby I wanted him to go in and get me a tin of Sewingmachine oil, because I needed it for my new "baby",l  that way there would be no temptation for me to buy anymore material.  When we drive up to the store there is a "LIQUADATION" sign on the windows, now what is a girl to do?  liquatation must be the summer material, which would be the cottons.
So I bought a tin of sewing machine oil cost me $90.00, but who can refuse buy 1 get 2 free.