national sewing machine day!

thanks to those inventive minds who put ideas to paper to manufacturing and perfected the sewing machine! in honor of this momentous day, i've collected the girls so they can strut their stuff!

trudy treadle is the dowager countess of the group, claiming 1926 as her year....followed by phoebe featherweight, 1954, and our "cora"..petite and practical.  next comes the old viking from 1978...the stoic edith of the group and my personal favorite....last is betty bernina from 1992, the mary, meaning somewhat rigid and very particular!  i love and use them all.....and yesterday was no exception!  no quilting or actual piecing was done but first thing early morning finally got this chair seat covered....on my to-do list since late winter, so glad to see it finished....someone donated this lovely waverly scrap to the senior center...

then, since summer is here and vacation is coming, another pair of shorts got sewn up quickly....again, fabric a donation from the senior center....there's more if you want to make a pair! 

and lastly, a little project that has been languishing on the sewing table....from a recent magazine....someone gave me a zipper so it begged for a pouch...and some of those bright batik scraps got used!

this was easy peasy and very likely will make a few more.....so join in the celebration and fire up the machine and sew something!

just in time

with flag day arriving later this week, finished this little flag wall quilt designed by deb gehringer and appearing in the latest issue of  'quiltmaker' that arrived just last week! another totally scrap project from the stash.....this week hoping to get more sewing done with less items on the to-do list....the weather is supposed to cooperate with temps in the high 70s, which is a bit cool for us mid-june....and the vacation countdown is on!  can't believe it's been a whole year since i spent time with my family....