Squee! It works! It sews!

After finally figuring out the needle goes in sideways and not front and back (like on most? modern machines), I managed to get the antique sewing machine to sew. Woohoo! The tension is a bit off but that is easy compared to refurbishing the motor, the light, the bobbin, getting the pressure foot to work again, cleaning and fixing the needle arm, ect... I can just sit there and play with the tension until it is even.

So now I have a nice antique sewing machine that works rather beautifully and has it's own table that it came embedded in. Based on a stamp on the inside of the table, the machine was made in 1964. The accessories (OMG! A Ruffler! Yay!) are all from 1957 and I'm guessing the lady that had this lovely machine never bothered to oil it since before I was born. Now that it's all nice and pretty, I'm thinking of getting out one of the vintage patterns and making a dress on it because it seems wrong to not sew a perfectly period new era dress when I have a perfectly period machine around....

Yay! Found stuff!

I found my camera! It's been missing for a week or so...at least. And I had lost it for two weeks before that. Hence why there haven't been any 365 entries for anyone that is following me over there. Sorry! I'll start back up with the new year and just do it that way.

Anyway, I was looking for the camera so I could take a picture of my latest project -my new mittens! I've never made mittens before so this was interesting. It got even more interesting when I didn't have a pattern, decided that I had to make something (still no computer access at work) or go insane, and thought "Oh! I bet I have just enough yarn to make mittens!"

My mittens. The yarn is ugly but it's what I had in my stash which is apparently from 1976 or so. I was trying to go for a bell cuff in the cream with the brown making up the "body" of the mitten.