December 2016 Postcard Swap
12-16-2016, 09:14 PM
#53
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Oregon
Posts: 890
I got my card in the mail today. It has a long way to travel, hopefully it has a quick trip!
It was my first time using the sewing machine to make the card, I was mostly successful. I had to play with the tension to go through the innards, mostly successful, but seems like it just couldn't adjust loose enough. Looks like I'll just have to make a lot more cards for the practice
It was my first time using the sewing machine to make the card, I was mostly successful. I had to play with the tension to go through the innards, mostly successful, but seems like it just couldn't adjust loose enough. Looks like I'll just have to make a lot more cards for the practice
Last edited by Sleepy Hollow; 12-16-2016 at 09:17 PM.
12-17-2016, 03:31 PM
#57
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 812
How creative is this birthday postcard from miriam! It's a keeper!
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and miriam, you must help me on what this postcard is about. It's adorable
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is it a s'more? marshmallows?
[ATTACH=CONFIG]563929[/ATTACH]
and miriam, you must help me on what this postcard is about. It's adorable
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is it a s'more? marshmallows?
12-17-2016, 06:05 PM
#59
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 15,506
Yes it is marshmallows on the second PC. It is from Mercy who is 12. The two marshmallows are supposed to look horrified about poor Puffy - S'morbid isn't it. It was done on an old Kenmore with a primitive 1980s computer. She had a lot of fun playing with that.
The birthday post card was sewn on my Singer 115 hand crank. I was using a wire darning foot and writing left handed and cranking with the right hand. I outlined a bit. Then I "zig zagged" around everything with it. It works better forward and back than side to side. It is a bit chincy but I can see what I'm doing with that spring thing. I just don't have fine hand writing on a good day. When I was digging through fabric and things I ran across a scrap of linen only slightly bigger than the final PC to stitch the calendar to. I discovered that it matched the flower off a broken old doily it kind of repeated the two patterns. It doesn't have a lot of sparkles but I couldn't justify putting any on with all the vintage stuff.
Singer 115 hand crank and wire darning foot:
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The birthday post card was sewn on my Singer 115 hand crank. I was using a wire darning foot and writing left handed and cranking with the right hand. I outlined a bit. Then I "zig zagged" around everything with it. It works better forward and back than side to side. It is a bit chincy but I can see what I'm doing with that spring thing. I just don't have fine hand writing on a good day. When I was digging through fabric and things I ran across a scrap of linen only slightly bigger than the final PC to stitch the calendar to. I discovered that it matched the flower off a broken old doily it kind of repeated the two patterns. It doesn't have a lot of sparkles but I couldn't justify putting any on with all the vintage stuff.
Singer 115 hand crank and wire darning foot:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]563941[/ATTACH]
Last edited by miriam; 12-17-2016 at 06:17 PM.
12-17-2016, 06:56 PM
#60
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: massachusetts
Posts: 812
wow miriam, i have yet to actually stitch words with my machine. i just don't have that much control even though i am a calligrapher. Give my thanks to Mercy for the cute postcard. Great job. How did u do the calendar numbers? was that already preprinted. i noticed the background was home dec fabric.
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