Quilt and Other Things...

I finished my first lap quilt. It has lots of mistakes, but that is ok!

I spotted a skunk coming out of the woods. It went to the neighbor's field and then back into the woods. This is the first one I've seen here.

And we had one last (hopefully) snow/ice storm on March 12th. We've had dustings of snow since then, but hopefully we're all done now. I'm so sick of snow.

Chicken Ice Palace

Sewing!

I don't think I ever got around to blogging about this... I'm teaching myself to sew! With help from Facebook groups and YouTube videos.

I am learning on both my grandma's 1898 Singer treadle:

and a Brother I bought with Christmas money, it does sewing and quilting:

As far as we can tell, the Singer was my grandma's mother-in-law's. No idea where she got it from, but there's no way she bought it new. This is Vesta J, my great-grandmother who died long before I was born.

It was made in Clydebank, Scotland in 1898. January 22nd to be exact, so it has a birthday coming up :) It was fairly well taken care of and sews well. Jon and I took it apart and thoroughly cleaned and oiled it. 

My current sewing table set up for the Brother: 

(see the sewing box on the floor? I have matching fabric and am going to make a machine cover for both of them, along with a few other little things)

Lap quilt I am working on: 

New fabric that is too beautiful to cut just yet: