The Sewing Place
The Emporia => Access All Accessories => Topic started by: Mick on April 04, 2019, 21:56:05 PM
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Sorry, was channeling a bit of a GBSB moment with that title... 8)
Anyway, back to reality.
When finally forced to admit that this sewing thing was not just a passing fancy, I thought I'd better get a slightly more "user friendly" sewing machine than the hand-cranked antique I had been using.
Ended up with a Singer HD 4423, which seems like a fine thing. Does everything I ask of it with no fuss.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7899/32591140137_391a10ecd3_z.jpg)
However, for a machine that prides itself on being strong and well built, the cover that comes with it is frankly a bit of a surprise. Apparently made of J-cloth it looks like it should last for about 10 minutes.
So this seemed like the perfect time to steepen my own learning curve a little, by designing and making something from scratch.
This is how it turned out.
Has a cut out in the top for the handle, and pockets on the front for the mains lead and foot pedal.
Hardly the most technical of projects, but as I say, having never done anything like this before, I'm just surprised it actually fits the machine properly.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7854/46618088275_5c0af03bfb_z.jpg)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7898/32591140647_18d129f5bd_z.jpg)
And the GBSB reference?
Well the outer is made from discarded restaurant napkins, the lining is from old pot-towels, and the pocket linings are industrial roller towel.
Cheapskate, me?
No, I prefer to think of it as "environmentally friendly". :D
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Excellent! I do love a surprise lining. 0_0
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@Mick Very nicely done Mick, and it might even spur me on to do my own machine cover (at the moment its draped over with a very old batik print Indian Cotton bedspread! :|
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I went off and bought some nice sewing related fabric. So far it has moved from a spare bed to the chair in the spare room.
Progress!
Nice no nonsense design Mick. I'm gonna steal that. :)
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Very nicely done @Mick :) I'm all for upcycling! Well done :vintage:
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Love the pockets. Why don't they supply a cover with useful pockets like that? Great job!
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My elna had a sturdy red cover with pockets both sides, no need to make one :)
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Very nice. I have been meaning to do this for yonks. Might make it a job for Saturday.
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That's brilliant - nicely made - well done!
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How sensible those pockets are. I've never seen a cover with pockets but they should all have them.
Great bit of recycling.
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Pockets are a great idea! Thanks for sharing :toast:
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Wonderful stuff ...
.... and yes isnt it shocking when a blooming expensive machine (I'm thinking Elvis here) comes with the a flimsy, tacky, placky cover ?????
I call it his body bag, out of which I have exhumed him 3 times over the past two weeks!
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My (not very expensive) machine came with a hard plastic
waste of space cover. No handle, no base just a sewing machine shaped upside down bucket. How veh useful! :S
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Great bit of upcycling, @Mick
My middle sis's (not Plosh) Pfaff has a hard plastic cover with handy sections for foot pedal and something else. My Pfaff doesn't.
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Now that`s what a Transformation Challenge should be about!
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That's an excellent cover and good use of materials too.
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Love the pockets in the cover. That’s a great idea.
Here’s mine. I just pop it on the machine when I’ve finished sewing.
I used some left over fabric that I’d used to make shopping bags for my DIL’s.
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Me too, I've got a plan to make a cover, I have a tutorial/lesson in my Cath Kidston book. Yes it has pockets :loveit:
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Great job Mick. Love it when things are re used.
You have to pay a certain amount to get a hard cover for a machine nowadays. I keeps the cost down. Some don’t even come with a zipper foot now! :o
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Great job Mick. Love it when things are re used.
You have to pay a certain amount to get a hard cover for a machine nowadays. I keeps the cost down. Some don’t even come with a zipper foot now! :o
I know. My upside down bucket was lauded as a triffic feature. :o
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Great job Mick, love your inventiveness in up-cycling the fabrics.
I had to pay £4.50
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Thanks for the encouraging words, everyone. 0_0
Love the pockets in the cover. That’s a great idea.
Here’s mine. I just pop it on the machine when I’ve finished sewing.
I used some left over fabric that I’d used to make shopping bags for my DIL’s.
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That is some pretty cool fabric.
The problem for me is that I don't have anywhere to leave my machine set up. I need to pack stuff away when I've finished using it. So the pockets are a real help in that respect.
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very neat, mine is a hard plastic cover too. you have inspired me.