A week ago I made a sewing machine cover with a singer sewing machine themed fabric panel. I had a few let over fabric that I could not let go to waste. I put together this small wall hanging. As a person who has a few vintage singers, I thought it would look nice in my sewing machine space. I struggle with what I have on my walls. What do you have hanging up?
I love Pfaff sewing machines. My mother always told me the story of her mother’s sewing machine. It was a Pfaff, not a singer. She had 19 kids and always had a pot of soup on the stove and paid for her sewing machine weekly. Im not sure if she was a quilter, I think she was more utilitarian than that. Using it for creating clothes and especially mending. My mother herself, did not sew and is 94 and has dementia now. Throughout my life, my mom mended and constructed by hand only. She could rebuild a sock heel with needle point thread in the most amazing way. Most of my socks had reconstructed heels 🙂 Later in my life, I would be called to my moms house to thread her sewing machine. I would, but then, I think she would abandon it for her hand stitching in frustration. A friend of mine told me that sewing sometimes skips a generation. So I often wondered about the grandmother in Holland I had never met, and I wondered what her sewing machine would have looked like in the 1930s! (History of Pfaff website). My first ever sewing machine was a Pfaff 2036 in early 2000s.
I did not have my children yet. I had finished University and was bored. I had met a friend, named Kimberley, at my new job. She asked if I wanted to go with her to run an errand at lunch and we ended up at Peachtree Quilting. One step into that store, and I was hooked! I saw all the possibilities hanging on the walls. I asked her if she could teach me how to quilt? She said, she wouldn’t be a very good teacher but they have classes at Peachtree. It wasn’t long before I went back to the store, signed up for a beginner class, and financed my Pfaff 2036 monthly. I remember bring it home and setting it up. The price was the cost of our latest car! And my partner told me that ‘I was never going to use that thing’. Little did they know.
Sometimes fabric waits for many years. I honestly can not remember when I cut and placed these pieces together. Over the years, this scrap sat and was moved from drawer, to box, to bag. Sometimes I tossed it over my Babylock Enlighten serger. Last week I found this scrap and thought it would make a perfect serger cover. But at the last minute, in a rabbit hole of youtube videos, I stumbled upon this video.
First Overlocker Project – Tote Bag on Lidl Singer Machine by Abi’s Den.
The method of turning a tube with serger thread made my head spin and I had to try it out. The result is reusable shopping bag (because who doesnt need a few more of those at the grocery store. Its the only place I go during this pandemic! We are all part of the solution).
The specifics of this bag sized finished are: 13 in wide by 15.5 length, straps are 26 inch.
Wow! It is ironic that it has been two years since my last post. I recently have the sewing bug and set up the sewing room again. This last year has been a very weird one, covid and all. Unlike many, I had the hardest working year of my life which prevented the attention to creation. Now that work has evened out from the emergency mode we fell into, I have been making items. There are also a few sewing machines that I gave away to others to sew masks during the pandemic and a few that I found that I would like to share in upcoming posts.
So in the spirit of sewing…I made a sewing machine cover for a recent addition to my sewing a machine collection (only 10 now). I found this singer fabric panel at my local quilt shop sale section. The fabric is called “Sewing with Singer” by Robert Kaufman. It seemed perfect. It was $5. The pattern I used was the sewing machine cover tutorial. I wanted a pattern that would be flexible enough to fit on several sewing machine types, so I opted to omit the side panels, seen in other patterns. Later, I will dedicate a post the the sewing machine it is covering. It has to be my all time favourite so far! Any guesses? Hint: It is not vintage, but not computerized either.
I also had a helper that looks like she wished she was a sewing machine. I love how this cover turned out and it a great project for beginners. 🙂 Happy sewing everyone.
Post edit: I have a purchased a second panel and found the free PDF pattern on this website. Its a different pattern and specifically created for this panel.
Create | Quilt | Sew 