Sewing Machine Number 8!

Sewing machines now outnumber The Living in our house 2 to 1.

A few years ago when Mr. Smarmy and I first bought our house, my parents bought this sewing machine for me. It’s a vintage Singer Red Eye treadle (i.e. pre-electric) machine. Nicknamed Red Eye because it has really elaborate red and gold designs on it.

My dad wanted to refinish the walnut cabinet, so the cast iron treadle part and the sewing machine came home with me and waited for the rest of their parts to be finished. Yesterday was the day!

Here’s how the machine was brought to me:

There were about 20 pieces and over 50 screws...

Big screws, little screws, everywhere screws screws

Keep in mind I’ve never seen it put together… my dad bought it in pieces so HE’s never seen it put together. And there are NO INSTRUCTIONS.

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Get a free custom fabric swatch!

I’ve been wanting to try Spoonflower’s custom fabric printing service forever, but I’ve never really had the balls to do it because it is a bit expensive. (Believe me, it’s the only real way for us small business folk to get our hands on custom fabric, short of printing/stamping/etc it ourselves. I’ve looked. In other words, the price is worth it.)

But HUZZAH! Today they’re giving away 1 free sample to anyone who wants one! You can custom design your own swatch or choose from the thousands of awesome designs submitted by customers! Free sample, free shipping! 100% free!

I got the WhatTheCraft intarsia sweater background as my free sample. If you try it out, I’d love to see what sample you designed or picked!

For more information about Spoonflower’s sample giveaway, check out their blog!

http://blog.spoonflower.com/2010/08/free-swatches-for-all.html

Radical Prints

Fabric.com has some awesome- and I do mean awesome, in the most 90′s sense of the word- prints up right now. Neon, leopard print, paint splatter… ahhh, it brings back memories of my youth. Tubular!

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