Haha! BRILLIANT Weight Watcher's meeting tonight! :D
Lost one and a half pounds, so am back to just one and a half above goal weight! :D :D :D
Gained two new-to-mw sewing machines and a big bag of fabric! :D :D :D
Machine 1: A Singer 28K hand crank, made in 1939, and with almost perfect decals. NO rust or dirt, moves as sweet as sugar candy, and complete with case and manual! And a few extra feet... This one may well be a keeper! It's very nice... Need to sew with it and give it an oiling to be sure, but - ;)
Machine 2: Singer 367. Not sure of the date on this one, but complete in its bag, with manual and a couple of feet and some plastic bobbins... Looks VERY like the lemon I sold on when I bought my now defunct Cub
- Again, nice and clean, very few signs of wear, and if it's a good-un, one for the school flock! Needs oiling and testing, but I shall form a proper opinion tomorrow.
Bag of fabric: A somewhat mixed bag, but all useful lengths!
2m white with black line print flowers. Rather 70's, in a quietly pretty way. Will make nice quilting fabric.Possibly 5 yards plain white cotton with tiddly scarlet stars on it! Another good one for quilting - probably backs!
Possibly 5 yards of white cotton flanal with little blue roses and tiny polka dots all over. Probably bought by my friend Rita's MIL for making nighties and PJ's for daughters/grands... Might make a nice quilt back...
About 3 yards of pink flanel with white splodges on, each of which has a little pink flower in the middle of it. VERY seventies pink! Most definitely nightie fabric! I may hide this one inside peg bags!
The rest are all poly-cotton nightie prints:
2 pieces of plain white with blue flowers and tiny dot sized flowers, one about 2m long and the other about 5 yards... Good bag lining, peg bag, or toile fabric!1 piece of sugar pink with Barbie pink sprigs of flowers all over, about
3m. Again, a colour and print to hide inside bags or make into toiles! Very Marks & Spencer's 1970's nightie...2 pieces cotton in white with little green flowers with pink touches round the edges. Another very 70's nightie type print, but much nicer than the last one, and a 36" wide cotton. Too nice a quality to make into bag linings, but possibly too widely spaced a print for quilting. Hmm... One bit about 2 yards and the other about 5 yards.
3m of very thin white polycotton with pink roses on it. DEFINITELY nightie fabric originaly.2 yards of similar quality poly-cotton with turquoise and green tiny sprigs of flowers and leaves.
Well, they may not be what I'd buy now, but back in the 70's I had nighties and shirts in fabrics and prints just like these! I guess the lady was fixated on pinks and blues and flowers for the kids! Rita thought her MIL had bought them for this sort of thing, so... Well, I can find a use for all of them sooner or later, and they'll eat no dinners in the loft! Rita said: 'I thought I'd ask you if you wanted them as well as the machines, but then I thought NO - I'll just take them! Kate can make something out of them with the kids, I'm sure.' How right she is! And what does she want back? One of me experimental peg bags! I HAVE to be the winner on this deal, and somewhere hidden in Rita's loft there are two more machines awaiting my attention... :) :) :)