Originally Posted by HanNatNana
What about making a quilt of the machines you own? The blocks could be embroidered or appliqued and have the machine name and other details underneath.
This is a quilt I made depicting Famous Sailing Ships, my 9yo DGD has it at the moment for 'show and tell' at school for their history studies. Since making this quilt I've bought fabric to make another one with First Fleet Ships but this is the style I was thinking about but featuring your machine collection.
You will notice in the first quilt photo it was tied, it was experimental and I didn't really like it then when I bought a HandiQuilter Frame it was one of the first projects....a bit backwards in that the binding and border quilting had already been done, but it worked OK.
The small table the Minerva Hand Crank sits one was this week's project and has now been restored, the little drawer has some old darning wool, hooks and eyes, crochet thread and a packet of needles as this was a table my MIL used as her sewing table and from memory she must have had a Singer 99 because I remember it was smaller than my mother's Singer.
Bronwyn ;-)
Bronwyn, so can we see the machine in that cabinet? The cabinet is really cute.
I love the way you did the quilt, yes it looks much better with all the stippling -- makes those ships looks like you did them in trapunto! To do that technique with our sewing machines pictured and a little description would be so cool! We'd all have to pick our very favorites, the ones we actually use or that have special meaning because we are forever adding to our collections.
Nancy