Ongoing Quilt Projects, Continued from the "No Appreciation...." Thread

[speckledhen]

Yes, I've seen that one. Mine is set up that way using card tables to the left of my seat, but my machine is not flush with the surface and I know for sure that would help a ton.

 

[speckledhen]

To bring it home to my husband how important it is to get to my bobbin easily, in talking about making a drop in table, I just told him how many bobbin changes I've made already on this current quilt that is roughly 2/3 complete.......18, eighteen bobbin changes. Makes me wish for those huge 'M' bobbins that some machines take.

 

[DuckLady]

I saw this video and thought her table mods were pretty good ideas. You have likely already seen it but here it is anyway in case anyone can use it.

I like that set up. If I ever get a sewing cabinet, I would put it in a corner of my sewing room, where, fortunately I have a window to look out of and daydream.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I think I got my old brother machine working!!

Its been through a lot and needs some love but seems to be finally adjusted properly.

This makes me very happy as it IS a good piecing machine.

The new singer machine IS nice but what the heck? No 1/4" foot??

Now just to find time to do anything! I am tending 2 puppies all day, have lots of chores, and gardening season is here.

 

[speckledhen]

I ordered a 96" x 9 yd roll of cotton batting, seemed a good price about $26. I opened the mailing plastic envelope and there it was, on a bolt. It was sort of unexpected, LOL. I've never had batting that wasn't in a package. How do you store that stuff? How do you keep it from picking up lint and such? My quilt room is my former master bedroom with carpet. I still have my triple dresser and a chest of drawers and my computer desk in there because my 2nd bedroom where we sleep is really not much of a bedroom, really small. I seriously need to ditch that triple dresser that takes up so much room, which is in perfect shape after 24 years and solid wood, and get a more upright 5-6 drawer chest or something.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I wanted to buy a replacement bulb for my Brother machine in case it went out and didn't know if it was a push-in or screw-in, so I opened it up and took it out, found it was a screw-in bulb. Then, when I put it back, it wouldn't work. That little bit of handling blew the bulb. It was the original bulb that came with the machine, I believe.
I was online trying to find a bulb to fit it and ready to go out to Walmart though I was dog-tired when DH said let's try a nightlight bulb, same base. Well, that was only 4 or 7 watts, hardly enough light. The one I needed was 15 watts. Then, the light bulb in my head went off! I had an extra wax burner bulb that was the same as a night light base, except it's 15 watts. Voila! New, fresh light on my machine, and though I don't recall what I paid for the Great Value 2 pack of those bulbs, I'd venture to say it was less than one bulb of the other kind.

Helpful hint: if your machine takes a small base bulb, see if you can find those wax burner bulbs at Walmart.

And I found a Singer S16 straight stitch machine on Ebay. Not knowing much about it, other than it seems to be the sister machine to mine, the Juki 2010 and the Janome 1600P, I looked up the manual. It has an extra light over the machine bed, very nice, but Singer is not very common as a straight stitch. But, I found something interesting...Singer is made by Janome! The manual is exactly the same for that one as the Janome 1600, same photos, except for a couple of minor differences.

Lady on Ebay wants $850 for her one year old Singer and it has one of those super large clear acrylic tables on it, but it's of course, the same exact throat space as mine. Ken's Sewing Center has one for $1049 new, but of course, no extension table like she obviously bought extra. My main issue with mine is really that it needs to be flush with the table. I keep catching the left corner on the quilt and messing up my motif.

 

[User395221]

How do you keep it from picking up lint and such?

Put it in a doona cover or wrap it in a sheet.

 

[speckledhen]

Put it in a doona cover or wrap it in a sheet.

Your Aussie is showing...doona cover? I don't know what that is. LOL. A sheet is a good idea, thanks.

 

[speckledhen]

The Singer machine:

 

[User395221]

Your Aussie is showing...doona cover? I don't know what that is. LOL. A sheet is a good idea, thanks.

oops. Didn't know it was Australian. A duvet, then?
https://www.arrohome.com/blog/doona-whats-behind-name/

Doona cover is like a really big pillowslip, for putting over a feather or down-filled bed quilt (duvet, doona)