4 years later...

Well here I am after what looks to be a 4 year absence...Why you ask? Lord only knows but too much has happened to go back and rehash all that stuff.
 So I’m gonna just start from here.
I’ve been happily longarm quilting, riding my pony, being a Mom to not only my now 25year old son but my now 7yr old Frenchie, his kitty Daisy and my sons rescue cat Moose.

My quilting obsession is in overdrive. 
I’ve got several vintage sewing machines that I’m in love with. Including two treadle machines. One is a 1902 Singer in a beautiful parlor cabinet that all I had to do was dust off.

 She dated July/December 1902 and her cabinet is original. Her decals on the bed are a little silvered but she purrs like a kitty. She is a 27K model. All I really had to do was change her belt.. Hard to believe she’s 116 years old. All I can say is that someone really loved her.  I found her in a little town not too far from here. I paid $75 dollars to a young man and his Mom who said the machine had belonged to her Aunt that had just passed away at 98 years old and that the machine belonged to her Mom. Kinda creepy if you think about it.
Well as long as it doesn’t start treadling by itself I’m good with it residing in my Quilt Cave.

The other treadle is a 1914 Minnesota A....it sews beautiful but I had to completely strip the cabinet. All she needs is a good varnish put back on her. 

Do I look happy or what? 

 This is what it looked like before I stripped her...

She came with the original manual!

Somehow I also acquired a few other machines, including a 1948 15-91 Singer electric sewing machine.. She came in a Queen Ann parlor cabinet. She was gifted by a family friend that had recently lost her 90 something year old mother. The machine was given to her mom for her 1950 Christmas Day wedding...I named her Lady Kathryn after the original owner, Katheryn James. 

The main reason I started back with my blog was to share my quilting .... I recently participated in one of my local quilt guilds biannual quilt show. I was pleasantly surprised when two of my miniature quilts won ribbons. My 11” Double Wedding Ring won 1st place. Then my Mini Tumbling 9 Patch won 3rd place. My boss that owns the quilt shop that I volunteer in won 2nd place in the Miniature group.