I even have spaces for ones that I intend to purchase or have ordered and not received. Frankly this level of organization scares me a little. But I've really enjoyed being able to quickly pull out and put back whichever one I want. I'm not wild about the storage area on my machine being behind the machine, and I had more feet than it has spaces, so it works quite well. 
In fact, the pretty box scares me more than this:
My sewing room this morning with stuff falling everywhere. See the black and white fabric on the Singer stool? That goes with the pattern pieces on the green mat that goes with the small wad behind my machine of a pair of knickers that may not make it. Having FITS over the elastic. I've seen elastic do things on this machine I didn't know it could do. I've been making some real progress with my quilt, though. Here are all the strips cut and ready to piece.
I put 2 blocks together and laid them out to see how it would look. (on the ironing board - that's why the lower left corner droops)
Here are the rest of the strips sewn into half-blocks. I only over ran one square and had to take it apart and put it together the right way. 
Now the bad news. And I don't know WHY!?! The squares aren't lining up. I've checked (I swear!) my raw pieces and my stitches and they're all the right size. But when I put them together I get this:
Look where the 2 squares are sewn together. This was every time. I really don't get it. I will finish piecing and then square them all up to the same size. But WTF?
And, because I just thought it looked kind of neat:
I will never invite you to my house if you think that is a messy sewing room. You might never recover from the shock.
ReplyDeleteRe the quilt - I don't quilt, as this always happens to me and annoys me greatly. My mum, who is a fabulous quilter, tells me that it is due to sewing exactly on the stitching line, apparently when sewing 1/4 inch, a precise quilter should sew a scant 1/4 of an inch -a hairsbreadth away from the 1/4 inch stitching line,to allow for the turn of cloth - there was also a long talk about the drag of using only one of the feed dogs instead of 2 doing something nasty to the seam allowance, but this one went straight over my head. I hope someone else can help.
BeeBee Inquiring minds MUST KNOW - Did you file or did you (gasp) EXTEND????
ReplyDeleteAnd I am with kbenco on the quilting. Same thing happens to me and I don't get it either. And I was good at math about 100 years ago!
While your box of feet is a little scary, you do not have a messy sewing room, no way no how. And I am not inviting you to mine anytime soon unless I am between projects and the area has actually been vaccuumed of thread bits. ;)
BetsyV
Great sewing room! You would be aghast if you saw mine!
ReplyDeleteAs for the pieced blocks--the reason they are not the same size is--the roll of the fabric when you press the seams to one side. Each time the seam is pressed to one side, the piece gets a tiny bit smaller. When you turn the finished block horizontally and butt it up against the vertical block, the roll of the fabric is causing the difference. I hope this makes sense.
HA! Given you are coming to my house this weekend, you will see what true chaos looks like. Not to be photographed, actually barely habitable. But, yes, the haul should be good. I have our shopping all planned out.. K
ReplyDeleteoh, and Betsy, I personally wimped out and extended. Prolonging the agony.