Thank you, everyone.
Hello and welcome. I too am deeply impressed by your early projects. I once house-shared with a draughtsman who, seeing me make stuff, asked if he could have a go. Long story short, he made an immaculate shirt for himself at the first attempt with only a bit of guidance from me on materials and how to use the machine. Transferrable skills indeed :-)
Clothing is my next big goal, in particular walking trousers. I would be lying if I said I wasn't slightly intimidated by the idea, though. I do enjoy metalkworking, I have a milling machine and a lathe at home and enjoy making things, occasionally even, more than just swarf.
Hi Dan and welcome to the forum.
You and I share similar starts to sewing. I bought one of those dinky toy sewing machines as I wanted to make a groundsheet for one of my tents and caught the bug. I've been through quite a few machines since then and have learnt quite a lot. The folks on the forum are very encouraging, friendly and pics of sewing projects are practically a rule here
Your bag is top notch
Thank you, well I also enjoy photography and tend to photograph all projects and enjoy sharing them as well as seeing other peoples projects.
Re. machines, this Singer is great, it's handled almost everything I've thrown at it, I am seriously impressed. But I do want to upgrade. I want to upgrade to an industrial walking foot sewing machine. The problem I have is that I build a desk in my spare room for my computer, sewing machine and other projects etc. so I don't have the room for another table so I'm either going to have to look for a suitable 'portable' walking foot sewing machine that doesn't require a dedicated table, or cut out a section of the desk I built to fit an industrial machine that has it's own table, which I don't really want to do.