Project Day 3-23-14

e started the day with Anja sewing, doing some small projects on the machine.

When Rowan got there we started in right away on the sewing machines. A lot of it was pulling lint out of places that we didn’t know how to get into and oiling things up, but there was a lot of adjusting and tweaking that got one after the other up and running. The old Brother machine is going, so students have something to learn on, and the heavy-stitching Kenmore that Anja does her leather pouches on, is also working. Not only that, but the old treadle machine, a New England Queen, that hasn’t been usable for years, is now working. It needs a plate that’s gone missing, but it actually will sew now, the tension has been adjusted and Anja knows how to fill the bobbins!

Anja had been sewing on the Janome machine (which also got some TLC) during much of the time that Rowan was working on the machines, and her big house robe is almost done.

At that point some of the other folks got there and we went on into warping an inkle loom (which was gifted to the instructor), finishing up the sanding on another and a short blackwork class, plus a lot of sharing of funny and/or weird stories.
There was a bit of talking about armor requirements, too. …and Anja made a “squid hat”. 🙂