99 HCs road trip.
 

Iris and I took some of our Hand cranks 99s on another road trip. Cottonwood Falls Kansas USA had a folk life festival. We had a lot more adults there this year. A big Symphony in the Flint HIlls concert ( 7,000) peole was cancelled because a storm wrecked the venue. Whimper. I was astounded at the good attitude who had had their weekend plans wrecked with that. But many people came to visit us since they were around anyway. Our tables had visitors from Nigeria, England, and from Texas to New Jersey. We had a lot of experinced sewists who took a seat. Many kept trying to find a foot pedal. Also many were surprised at how smooth the machiens were to use, and they were impressed by the stitches. One lady from Texas nearly begged to have me service her machine. Iris (GF) lived in Texas and suggested a few places nearby to the woman and she was pretty stunned.

The woman in garb was at next table over doing crochet. A guy on the other side used one of our machines to sew rags strips together to weave rag rugs with.

The young girl had prevous experince and came by three times to make our treasure pouches. Some had big enough scraps to make cell phone cases. We'll have to cut out more for those for our next event. Our foks life festival was free. We had mountain men, a few Union soldiers, ropemakers, a windmill guy, kettle corn, spinners, one quilter pottery lots of old time crafts. I enjoyed kites made from three bird feathers.

Iris finished her top and bicycle skirt just in time for the even. Her blouse gave ner new machine fits with the button holes.. Out came the featherweight to the rescue..once again. OUr biggest problem was that our chairs kept sinking in to the yard of the old courthouse. And yes, Many poele enjoyed sitting on my 38" Pennyfarthing, too.


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Wish I could have gone to the festival but it's too far away.

Love the vintage outfits!

I was just dumbstruck with the bicycle skirt. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I had to look it up and found the following patents for bicycle skirts:
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I'm curious -- Is that a border print fabric? How many yards or should that be miles of lace did it take?

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

Great photo's….sounds like a great time.

You make such a handsome pair! Love that you do this ... showing off the hand cranks and letting others try them out. I wish I had one and I do have several old machines but still need to find a spoked wheel and hand crank at a reasonable price which is the challenge, of course.

Repop spoked wheels and cranks can be found on line. I think we found a pair someplace for near $25.


The second day things got kind of slow so I started cleaning and oiling a new to me Spartan. it was spinning nicely by the end of the day. and it was great example to show the motor boss and the disc wheel that would need to leave.

We do enjoy doing this. Once again we had to be aware of windspeed with tangling thread.

Janey, I'll alert Iris to your question.

Love the posts of the events you attend! This one looked like a great time! Keep posting please!