Crossstitcher

Very nice work. Love the baby quilt pattern.

BoJangles

Wow, what a fun photo shop! I love all the quilts and other projects done on the vintage machines!

I am going to post a couple pictures too.

I just finished this baby quilt yesterday. It was suppose to be a quilted book - alphabet soup - but I cut it all up and made it into a quilt. It looks like a panel, but all the yellow sashing is just that - sashing sewn on to the sides of the book blocks with corner stones added. I had to miter the border, which I usually don't do, but it turned out ok.

This quilt was made using my Eldredge Two Spools (1915) treadle, my Singer 15-88 treadle (when I needed to back tack), my Davis Vertical Feed Treadle (1886). The only E-machine was my 1976 Pfaff 1222e for finishing the binding with an invisible walking zig zag.

Nancy

BoJangles

Here are two more of my quilts made using only treadles, then finished with my Pfaff 1222e!

vintagemotif

Nancy, I love your quilts! I like the way you used the children book fabric. Great idea!

melinda1962

Here is the pic of the quilt top on my Pfaff 230. I had never done a strip quilt, and it was too big, so I halved it and made two to use a baby quilts, still finished out at 36x45. I do more sewing than quilting, so this is a biggie for me. I also am going to attempt to FMQ with the hopping foot. Wish me luck.

vintagemotif

Melinda,
Is your Pfaff 230 in treadle or is it an e-machine? I love the look of the black 230s. You will do well; so, don't worry!
Cute strip quilt!

melinda1962

Mine is an e machine, and I wish it was black. It is a really ugly pewter color with green writing on it. The hopping foot was easy to use, and went way better than I thought. At least I think it did, because I had never seen one on a machine, and I hope it was on there right even. Test piece went alright, and I just wing things a lot anyway, so I just let nature take its course. Your quilts are so pretty too. I sort of copied your quilting pattern, with the big loops on it, and did a chalk line first and just followed the line.

Muv

So many gorgeous quilts have been posted here since I last looked! BoJangles - I particularly like your wonky set blocks.

Just a little project from me this time, which is my contribution to the September doll quilt swap. I ended up using three different machines - purely and simply because I was disorganised - 1913 Serata treadle to piece it, 1940 28K to do the writing, 1937 Frister and Rossmann to do the quilting.

Would you vintage ladies like to know how to do the writing with a straight stitch machine? You need a hand machine, it's far too fiddly with a treadle, and it's not free motion because I haven't got there yet!

lovelyl

Yes, please share your writing secret! :thumbup:

Muv

Hello Linda - This is how to do it:-

In the top half of a piece of paper write out your word, actual size, making sure that you take one continuous line with as few changes of direction as possible.

Fold the paper in half beneath the writing, so the writing shows on top, and insert a blank piece of paper, half the size of the first piece, between the the two folded halves. It should fit snugly inside.

Now make sure your sewing machine is unthreaded, and sew along the writing. The inner piece of paper will stay in place once you have done the first few blank stitches.

When you have finished you have the writing transferred onto the inner paper as a line of perforations.

Use this second, smaller piece of paper as your pattern. Thread up your machine, pin the paper pattern to your material, and sew along the line of writing. When you have finished the paper comes away fairly easily because it has now been perforated twice.

The advantages of this method is that you do not need to use any fabric marker, and you do not risk transferring any pencil or biro etc. from the paper you first wrote on. Also, the first time you do the blank sewing on the paper you have a practice run before doing the real thing.

I've tried it once on a treadle and it drove me nuts. I've done it twice on a hand machine and it was ideal, because it is so much easier to go extra slow.