The new Apocalypse alphabet continues this week with the letter "E", which will be available for free download in 2" size until 30 July 2026.
NOTICE
SITE UPDATE -- FINALLY!
After reaching an agreement with a business that will be selling the designs, I will at long last be restoring the storefront over the next couple of weeks.
Watch this space!
with all good wishes,
Jen
LATEST FREE DESIGN
Click this link to find this hilarious design, free in 4" size.
Need more project fun? While you're there, you can check out the rest of my posts for this year , and if you're still hungry for more, you can browse through all my projects going back to 2018.
NEWS & DOINGS
Summertime, and Scampers is enjoying being outside with my brother for an hour or so per day.
We all know the Featherweight is a "half sized" machine, but what does that actually look like?
This overhead shot by my friend gives a sense of just how teeny that little powerhouse actually is.
Of course that's the Featherweight on the far right, with a throat length (needle to pillar) of about5".
It's dwarfed even by the machine in the centre, which is a lovely Singer 99K, itself a 3/4 sized machine, with a throat length of 6-6.5".
The beauty at left is a gorgeous full-sized Singer 66 Lotus. It looks gigantic next to the others and especially compared to the Featherweight, but it's actually a standard size m achine, with a throat length of approximately 8-8.5".
So yeah, okay, I didn't need more scissors.
But in my defense, these 8" Westcott Titanium-bonded scissors were only $1 each, and even without my sharpening them, they easily cut through my fabric scrap.
Apparently these originally camein a set of three, along with a 5" pair, priced somewhere between $25 and $50 (so at least $10 per pair).
Somebody is for sure going to find these hilarious vintage piggy-themed Post-Its in a stocking come Christmas morning.
Santa tells me he knows a couple of different folks for whom they'd make a perfect sock stuffer.
He stashed them in his pack, where they'll be ready at hand on the big night.
A similar vintage set is currently listed on ebay for $14 US, plus shipping.
I picked up these little sharpeners with snap-on covers for only 25 cents apiece. They're just the thing to tuck into a Christmas cracker or -- with Santa's approval -- drop into a stocking.
At the thrift store this week I saw a pale yellow vintage machine very similar to this Brother, a basic straight-stitch machine from the 1950s or 60s.
Like its vintage fellows, this would be a strong, reliable machine that can easily handle a range of tasks, such as hemming jeans or sewing thick fake fur into a teddy bear, that are beyond many modern plastic machines -- and all with perfect stitch quality.
The store had it priced at only $25 -- because, they said, it doesn't zigzag. I was saddened to see that it didn't seem to be selling (nor did the other two machines they had there, both of which do zigzag).
I sure hope someone recognizes what a solid stitcher this would be, and what a steal of a deal.
Honestly, I'd have taken this one home with me, except that I already own somewhere around 35 (!) vintage straight-stitch machines, and I just don't have room. I'm also supposed to be downsizing . . .
