Buttonhole stitch can give a really nice rustic or ethnic feel to a garment and is often seen on Mexican blouses around the neckline and bottom of the yoke and sleeves. I usually stitch it by hand, but I have noticed that several of my sewing machines have a machine buttonhole stitch. Since right now [...]
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Decorative Buttonhole Stitch By Machine
Posted in Embroidery, Sewing For M, Sewing Machines & Accessories, tagged New Look 6027 on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back Home
Posted in Embroidery, Sewing Machines & Accessories, Vintage Sewing on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The little embroidery machine is out of the shop and back home. The problem was with the thread sensor, apparently. I tried it out this morning and it seems to be fine: My camera is still going crazy, though. At least I can get a few pictures out of it while scraping up the $$ [...]
Lucky Day
Posted in Sewing Machines & Accessories, Thrift and Booksale Finds on July 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I was looking over the broken Professional Buttonholer I picked up at the Legacy Thrift store when M and I went there last week, and though I only bought it for the slant-machine cover plate, I still regretted that it wouldn’t work any more. It had all of the templates and one extra, and somehow, [...]
Some Old Buttonholers and Accessories
Posted in Sewing Machines & Accessories on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My daughter, M, and I decided to drive up to the Petaluma area, mostly because there is a Super Walmart near Mare Island that M loves, since it is right next to a Sonic, which she has missed since she moved back from Texas. We decided to save our Sonic visit until we were on [...]
