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vintagemotif 07-03-2011 09:34 AM

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I'm starting a thread where everyone can show off their beautiful creations made by using their vintage/antique sewing machines.

I got bitten by the vintage sewing machine bug last summer, which was about the same time I started quilting again after an extremely long hiatus from that hobby.

So, here is one very simple quilt that I made using a Davis New Vertical Feed, a walking foot machine.

Front and back of quilt
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Quilting straight stitch
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Attaching binding with DAvis NVF walking foot machine.
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blueangel 07-03-2011 09:36 AM

Very nice.

cctx. 07-03-2011 09:39 AM

I make all my quilts using my vintage machine, but there are too many photos to post.

BTW, nice job on your Blues/Whites quilt.

BrendaY 07-03-2011 09:57 AM

I had hoped to use a treadle machine for some old fashioned quilting, but hubby couldn't get it working... so.. he bought me a NEW machine... I love it, but still would have liked to use a treadle some.

Am snowed under now with other projects to get started and finished before Christmas...

SewExtremeSeams 07-03-2011 10:45 AM

Thank you for starting this thread.

A lot of my sewing is done on my 1975 Bernina Record 830. I will post some photos later. Guess I will have to crank on my handcranks and treadles to show sewing with those vintage machines. LOL. I guess that what I am saying is that your thread will work as an inspiration for me. Thanks. :-D

DAWNROBIN 07-03-2011 01:20 PM

Wow that is great!

kolacequeen 07-03-2011 01:20 PM

Beautiful job.

debcavan 07-03-2011 01:58 PM

They are all so pretty

vintagemotif 07-03-2011 02:26 PM

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Here is a Christmas table topper made with scrappy fabrics. The machine used was a Singer 201k in treadle.

Jingle 07-03-2011 03:17 PM

Both quilts are beautiful.

cabbagepatchkid 07-03-2011 04:40 PM

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It's not a quilt, yet, but here are some quilt squares that I made from "crumbs" and they were sewn on my Singer 301. This machine was able to sew the smallest scraps together without "eating" them.

Crumb quilt square
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Singer model 301--Two tone (Light Beige/Oyster white)
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vintagemotif 07-03-2011 04:56 PM


Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid
It's not a quilt, yet, but here are some quilt squares that I made from "crumbs" and they were sewn on my Singer 301. This machine was able to sew the smallest scraps together without "eating" them.

That's going to be a very pretty crumbs quilt! I love using up the crumbs this way. Looking forward to seeing your posting of the finished quilt. Thanks!

cherrybsixty 07-04-2011 09:40 AM


Originally Posted by cctx.
I make all my quilts using my vintage machine, but there are too many photos to post.

BTW, nice job on your Blues/Whites quilt.

CCTX, let us see a few of them, we love pix. Thank you Monica, for starting this thread. Something else to ohh and ahh at.

cherrybsixty 07-04-2011 09:42 AM


Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Here is a Christmas table topper made with scrappy fabrics. The machine used was a Singer 201k in treadle.

Monica, I really love this quilt, it always reminds of Billy's root beer painted SM. Thank you again.

cherrybsixty 07-04-2011 09:45 AM


Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid
It's not a quilt, yet, but here are some quilt squares that I made from "crumbs" and they were sewn on my Singer 301. This machine was able to sew the smallest scraps together without "eating" them.

Cathy, that crumb is gorgeous. I have been wanting to do one of those for about a year now. Let me get up and get started.

luce321 07-04-2011 10:33 AM

Cathy, your crumb(to be) quilt is beautiful. Please post when you complete it.

luce321 07-04-2011 10:40 AM

Vintagemotif, your table topper is gorgeous. Great job.

Muv 07-04-2011 12:23 PM

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Here are a couple of pictures of a quilt I made for my daughter. Her favourite colours are pink and green, but not necessarily together. It's the Sister's Choice pattern shown on Bonnie Hunter's website. The top was pieced on the Frister and Rossmann 1937 transverse shuttle which is shown in the thread Vintage Sewing Machine Shop Photos, http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-130994-6.htm and it was long arm quilted at the quilt shop. On the picture of the machine you can see the back of this quilt. It's hard to get a good photo of this quilt, the colours always look bleached out.

I hope you particularly like the bad join in the border by the corner.

I've already posted another quilt, which was pieced on a vintage Singer, at http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-132615-1htm

I always do the border as blocks rather than a continuous strip
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one of my favourite blocks
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vintagemotif 07-04-2011 01:54 PM


Originally Posted by Muv
Here are a couple of pictures of a quilt I made for my daughter. Her favourite colours are pink and green, but not necessarily together. It's the Sister's Choice pattern shown on Bonnie Hunter's website. The top was pieced on the Frister and Rossmann 1937 transverse shuttle which is shown in the thread Vintage Sewing Machine Shop Photos, http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-130994-6.htm and it was long arm quilted at the quilt shop. On the picture of the machine you can see the back of this quilt. It's hard to get a good photo of this quilt, the colours always look bleached out.

I hope you particularly like the bad join in the border by the corner.

I've already posted another quilt, which was pieced on a vintage Singer, at http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-132615-1htm

Muv, Your quilt is beautiful! Don't worry about that corner. I always say a quilt must have some imperfection to it for the quilt to have a feeling of life...since life is never perfect for us...why should a quilt. Thanks for posting!

purplefiend 07-04-2011 02:19 PM

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I made a crumb quilt using my Singer 201K for the piecing and a Husqvarn Viking Sapphire 875 (the new girl) for the
machine quilting.
Sharon W.

1936 Singer 201K treadle, it has the hand crank on because 2 little girls were learning to sew.
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vintagemotif 07-04-2011 02:24 PM


Originally Posted by cherrybsixty

Originally Posted by cctx.
I make all my quilts using my vintage machine, but there are too many photos to post.

BTW, nice job on your Blues/Whites quilt.

CCTX, let us see a few of them, we love pix. Thank you Monica, for starting this thread. Something else to ohh and ahh at.

You should post that old quilt that you rescued. I would love to see that quilt!

vintagemotif 07-04-2011 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by purplefiend
I made a crumb quilt using my Singer 201K for the piecing and a Husqvarn Viking Sapphire 875 (the new girl) for the
machine quilting.
Sharon W.

Sharon, I love that crumb quilt with the colorful cactus border, works well with the large colorful squares!

purplefiend 07-04-2011 03:35 PM

Muv,
Your quilt is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Sharon W.

purplefiend 07-04-2011 03:37 PM


Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by purplefiend
I made a crumb quilt using my Singer 201K for the piecing and a Husqvarn Viking Sapphire 875 (the new girl) for the
machine quilting.
Sharon W.

Sharon, I love that crumb quilt with the colorful cactus border, works well with the large colorful squares!

Thanks Monica! I bought the entire bolt of cacti fabric at a quilt show; the vendor found out that it was for charity quilts and gave my 20% off the bolt.
I use it for my Linus Connection quilts, it goes well with the bright fabrics.
Sharon

vintagemotif 07-04-2011 07:09 PM


Originally Posted by purplefiend

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by purplefiend
I made a crumb quilt using my Singer 201K for the piecing and a Husqvarn Viking Sapphire 875 (the new girl) for the
machine quilting.
Sharon W.

Sharon, I love that crumb quilt with the colorful cactus border, works well with the large colorful squares!

Thanks Monica! I bought the entire bolt of cacti fabric at a quilt show; the vendor found out that it was for charity quilts and gave my 20% off the bolt.
I use it for my Linus Connection quilts, it goes well with the bright fabrics.
Sharon

That was very nice of her to help you out by giving you a discount. I like your bright fabrics for the crumb squares and this border fabric for you donation quilts to the Linus Connection. Great way to use up crumbs and at the same time help others. Way cool!

cherrybsixty 07-04-2011 07:42 PM


Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by cherrybsixty

Originally Posted by cctx.
I make all my quilts using my vintage machine, but there are too many photos to post.

BTW, nice job on your Blues/Whites quilt.

CCTX, let us see a few of them, we love pix. Thank you Monica, for starting this thread. Something else to ohh and ahh at.

You should post that old quilt that you rescued. I would love to see that quilt!

How did you know that the DGD was home and she can help me.

annieshane 07-04-2011 07:47 PM

REally like your Crumbs. I also have 301 but it is at my friends house so I don't have to take it back and forth. Don't you love your 301!

purplefiend 07-04-2011 08:28 PM


Originally Posted by annieshane
REally like your Crumbs. I also have 301 but it is at my friends house so I don't have to take it back and forth. Don't you love your 301!

I've fallen in love with my 301 now that I've finally gotten the tension assembly all adjusted properly. I have a herd of vintage machines.

vintagemotif 07-04-2011 09:04 PM


Originally Posted by cherrybsixty

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Originally Posted by cherrybsixty

Originally Posted by cctx.
I make all my quilts using my vintage machine, but there are too many photos to post.

BTW, nice job on your Blues/Whites quilt.

CCTX, let us see a few of them, we love pix. Thank you Monica, for starting this thread. Something else to ohh and ahh at.

You should post that old quilt that you rescued. I would love to see that quilt!

How did you know that the DGD was home and she can help me.

Okay, you lost me here with "DGD was home and she can help me". I remember you telling us during one of the chats on the Vintage Machine Shop thread that you had rescued a quilt, that you were cleaning it up, and that you would be posting pictures of the quilt very soon. When I saw your post here today, I thought of that quilt and wondered if you got the picture posted on the QB. I would love to see that quilt!

I think I need an urban dictionary to help me with some of these acronyms/initialism.

vintagemotif 07-04-2011 09:25 PM

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The machine that started my love of using vintage machines with treadles, a Singer 66-1 with Lotus decals. This baby quilt is the first quilt that I made by treadle power. The pattern is from Moda. I pieced, quilted, and attached the binding with this machine.

SewExtremeSeams 07-05-2011 05:28 AM

Muv, your quilt is so beautiful. I love the soft colors.

Sharon W, LOVE your quilt with the bright colors. What pattern did you use? It looks like a variety of log cabins. LC are one of my favorite blocks.

Vintagemotif, your pinwheel quilt is very pretty. Wow, on your Singer 66-1 with lotus decals. Gorgeous!

:-D

purplefiend 07-05-2011 06:00 AM

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SewExtreme,
My blocks are my version of a crumb quilt block. I love bright colors! :-D I make lots of charity quilts for in-need
children, I'm part of "The Linus Connection". www.linusconnection.org
You can find the pattern suggestion at the following link:

http://quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml

Thank you for your kind words about my quilt.
Sharon W.

my other favorite treadle machine Singer 66 with red eye decals 101 years old.
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vintagemotif 07-05-2011 08:26 AM


Originally Posted by purplefiend
SewExtreme,
My blocks are my version of a crumb quilt block. I love bright colors! :-D I make lots of charity quilts for in-need
children, I'm part of "The Linus Connection". www.linusconnection.org
You can find the pattern suggestion at the following link:

http://quiltville.com/crumbs.shtml

Thank you for your kind words about my quilt.
Sharon W.

Sharon thanks for posting this link with so much helpful information to get one started in using up crumbs.

purplefiend 07-05-2011 12:01 PM


Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Sharon thanks for posting this link with so much helpful information to get one started in using up crumbs.

Monica,
I love Quiltville.com, lots of good patterns for using our scraps. Bonnie Hunter was a speaker at my guild last year .
Sharon

vintagemotif 07-05-2011 01:00 PM

I also like to use the Plain Spoken pattern by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle found in their book The Modern Quilt Workshop.
You can either free motion quilt (I like to use my Singer 15-90 in treadle for this) or straight-stitch quilt (which is quick and simple on even Singer 66-1). I'm presently working on a Plain Spoken that is quilted just using the straight-stitch. I'll post photos of the finished quilt.

vintagemotif 07-06-2011 08:15 AM

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The " I Spy Quilt" that I made for my dad was pieced and quilted using my Singer 201K.

purplefiend 07-06-2011 12:30 PM


Originally Posted by vintagemotif
The " I Spy Quilt" that I made for my dad was pieced and quilted using my Singer 201K.

Awesome quilt,Monica! What year is your 201K? I have a 1936 201k.
Sharon W.

purplefiend 07-06-2011 12:31 PM

I am currently piecing 2 quilts of valor with my black Singer 301. She's sewing wonderfully since she's had her top tension reset.
Sharon W.

vintagemotif 07-06-2011 02:27 PM


Originally Posted by purplefiend

Originally Posted by vintagemotif
The " I Spy Quilt" that I made for my dad was pieced and quilted using my Singer 201K.

Awesome quilt,Monica! What year is your 201K? I have a 1936 201k.
Sharon W.

My Singer 201K is from 1953. I'm so surprised as to how smooth and quiet this machine sews. Not even my daughter's Janome sews this way.

vintagemotif 07-06-2011 02:37 PM


Originally Posted by purplefiend
I am currently piecing 2 quilts of valor with my black Singer 301. She's sewing wonderfully since she's had her top tension reset.
Sharon W.

I recently found a Singer 401A. I plan to make a baby quilt using the 401A and my FW. I'm planning to do some piecing with the FW and then the quilting and binding work with the 401A. I always finish off my bindings with some type of decorative stitch since I attach the bindings by machine. A great way to hide the unevenness of the finished machine binding work (at least for me it is. since I can never get it to be perfect on both sides). Anyhow, I'm looking forward to playing with the decorative stitches on the 401. That machine runs very nicely too!


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