Could There Be–Too MUCH of a Good Thing?

Last week I received an email from Peggy who lives in Greensboro.

She was offering up 4 machines, and would I like to adopt them?

“Two are in those round wooden cases, and two look like suitcases.”

Well shoot!  That could be ANYTHING! My wheels were spinning and I knew that I could not just let this go…

So Wednesday afternoon I headed over to Greensboro, about a 30 minute drive from the house to meet up with Peggy and see what was what.

And just as she said.  Two in round wooden cases, and two suit case looking machines –and I knew right away what they were.

The suitcase ones, anyway!  These are 99ks!  And they are wonderful machines.

One of the round wooden machines is a class 15 with a potted motor, circa 1940s.  The other, a reproduction 15 made somewhere in the 1970s.

Oh this could be fun!

The 2 99’s out of their cases looking like twins!

I haven’t had a chance to date these yet, but I am guessing 1950s – of the 99k’s I’ve had in the past, that seems to be the going date for this type of case.

Which one is older do you think?

You might think the front one with the fancier decals is the older one.  And who would blame you with that pretty chrome spoked wheel?

But look closely at the bottom right of the photo – you’ll see a plastic knob on the base of the machine.  Yes.  Plastic.  To drop the feed dogs.  This one is the 1970s reproduction singer – made in China I believe. Still a fine machine, and without the motor it’s a good treadle candidate.

The one behind is either late 1940s or early 1950s 15-91 with the potted motor.  Heavy duty wonderful machine!

What will become of these?  I don’t know!  I spent most of last year downsizing the fleet, and in the past 10 days I’ve acquired 6.  Sometimes you gift some, some times you gain some!

And then Peggy said…..”You wouldn’t want to adopt this fabric as well, would you? I’m down-sizing.”

Four tubs worth!  Click to play and see how I spent Wednesday afternoon/evening and all day yesterday!

A post shared by Bonnie K Hunter (@quiltville_bonnie) on Apr 12, 2018 at 12:29pm PDT

*Singing* "Folding, folding, folding...gotta keep on folding....."

(To the tune of Raw Hide!)

More than 100 yards!

Most of the pieces were 2 to 3 yard cuts.  Some bigger.  Some smaller.  All very nice, and will be great for many things – including building Mona’s stash! (Though I don’t know where she is going to put it – they live in a double wide modular home!)

At any rate—it had to be washed.  It had been stored in a basement with only an outdoor exit, cinder block walls which hold moisture.  Everything, though clean – had a very heavy musty smell and due to my allergies I just can’t have musty fabric in the house.

Now I can’t get the smell of tide pods out of my nose! LOL!

Just unbelievable!

I spent years as the charity quilt chairperson in my previous guild life, and I know how much this kind of stash with large pieces is valued – backings, borders, backgrounds, loads of blenders, florals, geometrics, marbles – I’m thinking Quilts of Valor, Project Linus – this is going to make so many people happy down the road!

I am just constantly amazed and awed by the kindnesses of quilters. When it is time for me to retire, that is exactly what I will be doing.  Spending my time with quilty friends, getting together making quilts for those in need.

But it’s not time to retire yet.  I’m off to California this morning – my flight will take me from Greensboro to Atlanta and on to Sacramento where Jamie (who was my classroom angel at Asilomar last month!) will pick me up.  I’ll stay one night at her place and then off to Napa we go.  Lecture Saturday, Workshops Sunday and Monday.

Tuesday is a travel day to go from Napa to Bakersfield, and I’ll finish up the week with 2 more lectures and 3 more workshops down there – so it’s going to be a wild ride over the next week.

In my contact with Quiltmaker asking about issue availability – the following response came back to me:

The issue is scheduled to be live in the digital version on the website no later than April 16th. After my question yesterday, my contact is going to see if they can move it to the top of the list. I'll let you know if they make that happen.

Evidently the digital issue doesn’t come out as quickly as the print issue?  And we started this Sew Along running without my letting them know of our need to have it available. So those waiting for the digital issue, just a few more days and it will be available to you.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

I’m hoping to be able to sleep on the plane. 

Much of this post was written last night when I should have been in bed – because my 3:45am airport departure time (in 5 minutes from now as I write this!) didn’t leave much blog writing time either! 

In fact, it’s too early to send it so I’ll be editing at the airport, and likely pushing upload when I reach Atlanta.

Hexies at the ready if I’m NOT sleeping!

Have a wonderful Friday the 13th! Sacramento, here I come!