Yesterday was another beautiful day here in Montreal.  It has been warm for this time of year for over a week now.  Its been 20C or 70F and sunny, which is not our normal temperatures for this time of year.  I had yesterday off work, as I am back at work at 80% for the next 6 weeks.  I ended up in the hospital at the end of August for 8 days with a bacterial leg infection, then I was at home for another 7 days with an intervenses dose of antibiotics.  For a good part of Septemebr I was just not interested in doing anything, no sewin, kntting or crocehet or cross stitch, which is not like me at all.  A few weeks ago, I was looking through our local Kijiji and there was a sewing machine advertise for sale.  Looking closer at the ad I noticed it was about 20 houses away from where I live.  I even remember telling my hubby about a garage sale in August that we missed that had a sewing machine adverised.  We had driven right past the house but didn't stop becuase we were on our way to the trailer, and had our dogs with us.  Well I answered the add and sure enough she still had the sewing machine, I eneded up paying 50.00 for her.  I've named her Lizabeth (Lizzy) and I think I am in love with this machine.  I plugged her in oiled her and she runs like a charm.  I also love the fact that when you open the cabinet, in opens to 2 parts, the one on the left is the longer one, but there is alos about a foot long one on the right.  The right side gives me just enough room for my ipod, my scissors and glasses.  You don't have to take the bobbin out to wind it.  She is set up on the front gallery, which is all windows around, so alot of natural light during the day.  The only draw back to it being on the front gallery is that it is not heated.  But during the cold weather I'll bring her in, but for now it is such a joy to sit out there and look outside and listen to my music as I sew away.

 

Oh and Lizzy is a Singer  Touch and Sew 750

 

 

 

 

 

I've cleaned it up some since this photo was taken, ok ok I straightened the books and through the empty bottle out.  Why clean when you can sew.







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.