Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing

The collar is made from two identical pieces cut from the pattern piece that I drafted .  The two pieces are sewn together with right sid...

Today I got to grips with the tweed cushion that I am making for my husband.  I needed to cut the quilted panel to size and bind the edg...

Yesterday I spent a fair portion of the day playing around with rufflers.  It is about four years since I last used a r uffler and I need...

This is a detail of a project I have just finished.  I tried out the instant braid made with twisted embroidery cotton, with several str...

Using the braiding foot was so much fun that I have been mulling over ways to use it in future projects.  I thought that finding braid w...

Yesterday I finally got round to using the braiding foot that came with the Serata treadle.  I put it on the Singer 15K hand machine and...

This is a bit irritating.  I was looking forward to trying out a bit of free motion work on the 201K treadle and found that my hopping fo...

Here it is with its clothes back on. It came in a plastic box (only slightly cracked), along with all the extra bits and piec...

It looks like a mousetrap with inbuilt instruments of torture - a miniature rack perhaps. I spent yesterday evening working out how to ...

The notch of the lever at the front fits over the needle clamp, so when sewing the lever is moved up and down to operate the zigzagger. ...

This intriguing little box was sitting in a charity shop waiting for me.   The dodgy spelling is a bit of a giveaway - I did a bit of res...

This is one of the feet that came with the Serata treadle, a really nice braiding foot. Feed the braid over the bar at the front and...

It didn't take long to get the metal to shine. When I was cleaning the foot I realised that it has a bar and groove so you can ...

Work has started on the little dresses, using the turquoise batik that Sew Scrumptious Louise brought round here.  With my machines th...

This is the foot that I use for free motion quilting on the Singer 15K treadle. The hopping foot has to be put on with the lever in pos...

For ages I was looking forward to trying out free motion quilting on the Singer 15K treadle, but first I had to clean up the machine.  Th...

The seam guide needs to be screwed down tightly so it doe sn't shift out of position while you are working.  The danger is that a tou...

After all the work I put into the appliqué on the Diamond Jubilee wall hanging, I had to work out the best way of quilting around the edg...

Often an old Singer machine will have a quilting foot with the attachments, together with a quilting guide.  Once the foot has been...