I think I bought my first sewing machine, which was a rather wonderful Frister and Rossman machine, way back in around 1982. I loved that machine and I made many clothes for myself including my wedding dress. I also as time moved on made a lot of clothes for my children. I had a Horn Sewing Cabinet where I stored my machine away and it was a much loved part of my life. Then things happen and I moved to a smaller house. There was no room for the sewing cabinet so I took the machine with me and it went to live in a cupboard. The cupboard might as well have been on Mars because it become a distant planet to me. I cannot say I consciously stopped sewing, but there reaches that point when you realise you have not made anything for quite a few years.
Fast forward to the advent of the BBC TV programme The Great British Sewing Bee in 2013 which I loved watching. The more I watched the more I thought of my sad and lonely sewing machine that had moved with me a couple of times yet had not seen any action for a good ten years or more. I decided it was time to fire it up and make something. Time and neglect had not served my machine well. It was totally seized up. I considered taking it for a service but thought it was probably time to get a new machine. A Singer 1507 was duly purchased and soon put to use. I still had no room (or indeed wherewithall) at that time to buy a new cabinet, but I could set up on the kitchen table and all was good. I made a skirt or two and then put the machine away.
A couple of years pass but the machine is calling to me, softly, from its corner of the room. I kept watching each new series of the Sewing Bee, I kept seeing wonderful patterns and fabric on Twitter in particular. The sewing machine was released from its corner and brought back into action.
This blog will follow my sewing exploits, I will chart my development, successes and (hopefully not many) failures. I share with you here the most important lesson I learned very quickly: measurements matter.
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