As I'm taking a moment to update the blog in general, I realize just how much has happened since I started this little online project. I finished a master's degree. I served with AmeriCorps for a year. I did a LOT of substitute teaching. I finished yet another master's degree. Now there's a pandemic!
Despite what's happening around me, these are the tools of my trade:
... a Singer Precision. Another got it from someone else machine - I swear, the only machine I've ever purchased was the Huskylock, the rest have been gifted to me because someone was cleaning out or upgrading. It's the first digital machine I've ever owned, and I'm still not used to the fact that it can thread itself or that the needle always stops in the up position.
... a Singer Merritt 4552 sewing machine Got her from a friend whose mother swore she never took it out of the box, but somehow it wouldn't work. Or it was dropped. Something. Anyway, $15 for a missing part later, and she's been humming along merrily ever since.
... a Brother VX-1120 keeps me limping along when Merritt is being temperamental. Brother is good for piece work.
... a Huskylock 560 ED! I was trolling websites for used machines and had finally made a decision to buy a second hand Singer that day, but as it happens, someone, just five minutes earlier had brought in their family member's old machines. So I got the Huskylock for the price of the used Singer. Love, love, love the Huskylock. If only I had the time to take a class about sergers...
... a Craftsman circular saw. This is literally all I know about this device. It's a circular saw. It's a Craftsman. It also cuts through things faster than if I was using a hand saw, so what ever it takes to keep it going.
... a Kreg jig. Another 'this is all I know about this'. It has a name, and it was a kit, and it came with a bunch of screws.
... a Singer treadle sewing machine!!! More on this later. It works, but it has the original leather belt, and that needs to be replaced with something a little less temperamental
I knit, but I don't crochet [where, seriously, do you stick the hook?], and when I knit, I prefer to do so on a circular needle, so I don't have to worry about losing one of the pair.
