Get My Thrills Thrifting #11: Sewing Attachment Jackpot

Day 290: Thrift store treasures have been few and far between lately, but that is how it is when you are searching feast or famine.  Yesterday it was definitely a good day with a box full of little feet that I have to do some more ID research on, a Singer ZigZag and a Singer Blind Stitch Hemmer attachment.  Then at another store a box full of WWII brass jacket buttons.

Things have been so incredibly busy around here lately and while I miss blogging I am very blessed to be able to be this busy with  my sewing.  If you follow me on Facebook you can see some of the things I am working on, I can only show pictures of some of it but some stuff you have to wait to see until after a photo shoot or the fashion show coming up!

What will you create today?

I get my thrills thrifting #5: Singer Sewing Machine Attachment Love

Day 238  I am totally in love with sewing machines and I mean some serious petting.  Its a disease and if you sew you probably know of which I speak.  Don't judge.  I could barely contain myself as I saw this in the glass case and they were displayed with the box open so it wasn't until I got it home that I could tell how good a condition it was all in.  I mean seriously the manual has never even been flipped through.

The sad part of this tale is I got it home and NONE, NOT A ONE of my vintage sewing machines are slant shank, they are all low shank...BOO HISS..so now to decide do I sell these or hold out for a slant shank machine cause you know if I give them away I will see a machine the next day at the thrift store for $5, its the way I roll.

These are labeled Singer Sewing Machine Attachments for class 404 machines.  Part No 161277 and it is completely intact with all the original pieces.  I think it is from the 50s.  It even has the card that the little darning foot came on.  Oh to long for the days when sewing machine feet were $2.25.

What will you create today?

Sunday Best #3: Clean up Christmas, its time for the New Year!

Day 231   Its clean up time, the bi-annual purging of stuff, throwing out or recycling what doesn't work and trying new things.

Pillows going into the new store today.  I am loving that Navy one, its a cross stitch reverse appliqued on recycled fabric.

My mom had given me these Singer sewing machine feet and attachments and they just came out of their vinegar bath to clean off all the rust.  They look just spanking new don't they?  Have not had the time to identify what some of them do so if you have any ideas let me know.  I know there are a couple of hemmers and a ruffler in there and only one of them actually has a ID number on them so I am assuming they are parts that go to a bigger attachment.

Fred was discovered  'helping' while we were taking down and putting away Christmas decorations.  Although eating the Christmas decorations and spitting them out is not really helping the clean up process. 

So make a clean sweep, pull up your boot straps, find your artistic mojo and prepare to hit the mute button, its gonna be a year of art, success, hope, the US getting back on its economic feet and political shenanigans.  What will you create today?

I get my thrills thrifting #4: All we got for Christmas....

Day 230:  This Christmas my hub and I were determined to only get things we found within a certain price range (read dollars and change) at local thrift stores and flea markets.  So we either were given or gave these things as is or we used them to put together into other gifts (that will be the Mad Scientist Monday post).  Here is just some of the awesomeness: 

A White sewing machine virtually untouched beneath its cover.  I don't think the original owner ever touched this or sewed from it at all because everything was brand spanking new when we lifted off the cover.  

My girls found this Sewhandy by Singer for me as a Christmas present.

An adorable machine for kids beginning to sew on.  

This wasn't really on Christmas but afterwards because I was searching for buttons for a project.  A lovely grab bag, you never know what will be inside.

How mod are these?

Spools of thread dug out of a tool box of all places at a local thrift store.  I am surprised at the good condition of the thread.  I often use thread from the thrift store in my hand stitchings.

This lot of vintage blue buttons was a gift from my kids.  The ravens on top were just gift tags to use for contrast because I couldn't get the color to come out right.

These 2 are among my most favorite gifts, a vintage scale and an electric pencil sharpener!

Some vintage mysteries I found for my girls for Christmas presents.  There were also some amazing vintage Sonic the Hedgehog comics as well.

One of the best was a tea set that belonged to my hub's mom that she played with as a kid.   My youngest loves tea sets and playing tea with her American Girl dolls and this was a big surprise.  You can see some of the vintage cookie cutters that we also put in their stockings too.

All in all it was a great holiday.  Great in that we all got things that we will cherish and use and were meaningful to the recipient.  This took a lot of planning and luck but I think it will be a tradition that we will continue from now on....one bonus was we only had one bag of recycling because there was very little packaging and we didn't have to wrestle with any unopenable plastic boxes YAY!!

I'm going to go get that new to me White machine up and running today. What will you create today?