JSM's BEGGING FOR BAN THREAD #10

[Northern Rose]

Hi Scareycarrey and everyone else...

would you guys mind sharing some of these awesome recipes on the favorite recipe thread then everyone can enjoy them...thanks a bunch...I just copied off 2 more recipes...I love recipes and looking at cook books! Taste of Home is one of my favs....

Hi Cookie.  I did post the ones from yesterday into the cooking thread (or at least I thought I did )    Now I have to go look if I messed up.

[Tevye]

Greeneyes, I have a treadle machine sitting where my Christmas tree should be. I wouldn't know how to work it if I tried, but it is very pretty. If my Christmas saga palm wasn't in front of it I would take a picture of it. It was left out in the rain at one point so some of the top is cracking, but other than that it is really pretty. The machine itself is in my closet because when I moved it was too heavy to carry up the stairs all in one piece.

I have a treadle sewing machine that belonged to daughter-in-law's great grandmother. It rode from Detroit to up here in a trailer, losing one of its drawers on the way. I used the technology of the 'net to figure out how to restore it. I was totally shocked to learn that our local Singer store sells the belt I needed to make it go. I didn't refinish the cupboard and drawers, I restored them with special soap and a special recipe shellac-like finish. Then, I made a quilt for my grandson, and signed it with his great-grandmothers name (she bought the machine), his downstate granny's name (she inherited it and gave it to me) and my name.

I have 3 sewing machines, and the treadle is my favorite. It's quiet and really fun once you get the rhythm down. It's like meditating, only you're producing something. I find it is best for large projects, like putting the already made quilt blocks together and putting the whole quilt together. For piecing the blocks, I use my electric, as the electric is a 2 speed, the treadle doesn't have reverse!

Here is my treadle and I love it!  I also have 3 machines and this is my all time favourite.  I use it to do the top stitching on my quilts as I have so much control over it and the cabinet helps me roll the quilt for the sections I am working on.  I have found a weblink that lets you know when your Singer was manufactured and where by the serial number.  This one came over from Scotland and how I got it is a whole other story.

Here is the first quilt I my daughter made.  She picked out the colours and design , helped cut the strips and sewed them all together.  I have made a quilt for each of the kids this way.  Youngest has one made up entirely of his oldest brothers jeans.

Rose, you have my machine!!! Does yours have 3 drawers on each side, and one in the middle? Aren't they gorgeous?  And I love the quilt, you daughter did a very good job.

Yes!  Three almost quare drawers on both sides of the cabint and the middle one with a key.  I have the key still.  I do love this machine it sews so nice.  If you go here http://www.singerco.com/support/serial_numbers.html  you can look up the serial number on the plate.  Mine is from Clydbank Scotland circa 1908

I did that when I first got the machine. Then I found a great website that has tons of posters who tell you how to fix, refinish or refurb the machine. It was a great help! I think my machine is about 1910, but I can't remember. I wrote it all down in the manual I found online and printed.

Doncha just love how we use modern technology (the net) to live like our grandmas did? Don't get me started on Aladdin lamps......

[cookie]

Thank-you Northern Rose that sounds really good  Well we are going to go pick up my daughter and her husband and go for her birthday dinner. 25 years old today, I don't know how that happened  Time sure flys

Oh cool! Have a wonderful time, no rose!

Tell her from us monkeys!!!

still catching up on this thread but hope you and your family had a wonderful time with your daughter on her birthday..

[cookie]

Hi Scareycarrey and everyone else...

would you guys mind sharing some of these awesome recipes on the favorite recipe thread then everyone can enjoy them...thanks a bunch...I just copied off 2 more recipes...I love recipes and looking at cook books! Taste of Home is one of my favs....

Hi Cookie.  I did post the ones from yesterday into the cooking thread (or at least I thought I did )    Now I have to go look if I messed up.

yes..I just printed yours and CBB's fruit salad...they both sound so  good! can't wait to try them!

[cookie]

Night monkeys. I am going to bed. I got up too early, my legs are tired and Josef is sleepy. Sleep well and God bless. 

Sleep well, and good night, JSM!

Kiss Josef for me!

good night....I may not be far from bed myself...
We just got a new temperpedic mattress yesterday and it is heavenly!

[Northern Rose]

Hi Scareycarrey and everyone else...

would you guys mind sharing some of these awesome recipes on the favorite recipe thread then everyone can enjoy them...thanks a bunch...I just copied off 2 more recipes...I love recipes and looking at cook books! Taste of Home is one of my favs....

Hi Cookie.  I did post the ones from yesterday into the cooking thread (or at least I thought I did )    Now I have to go look if I messed up.

yes..I just printed yours and CBB's fruit salad...they both sound so  good! can't wait to try them!

Cookie they are all here  http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=1203.msg1035040#msg1035040

Sorry if I put them in the wrong place.

[cookie]

Hi Scareycarrey and everyone else...

would you guys mind sharing some of these awesome recipes on the favorite recipe thread then everyone can enjoy them...thanks a bunch...I just copied off 2 more recipes...I love recipes and looking at cook books! Taste of Home is one of my favs....

Hi Cookie.  I did post the ones from yesterday into the cooking thread (or at least I thought I did )    Now I have to go look if I messed up.

yes..I just printed yours and CBB's fruit salad...they both sound so  good! can't wait to try them!

Cookie they are all here  http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=1203.msg1035040#msg1035040

Sorry if I put them in the wrong place.

no not the wrong place at all! just another place...that way for those who don't come on this thread, they will see the great recipes from other monkeys!
by the way, I am going to ask her and over there, does anyone have an easy and good recipe for Swedish pancakes? my very favorite...thanks!

[Northern Rose]

I did that when I first got the machine. Then I found a great website that has tons of posters who tell you how to fix, refinish or refurb the machine. It was a great help! I think my machine is about 1910, but I can't remember. I wrote it all down in the manual I found online and printed.

Doncha just love how we use modern technology (the net) to live like our grandmas did? Don't get me started on Aladdin lamps......

My machine was given to me.  The lady that had it was going to throw it in the dump.  I told her I would take it off her hands and she told me to load it in the truck.  Each draw was full of goodies.  It was like I was opening up a magic box. There were old glass button, hooks and eyes, spare belts, old thread on wooden spools.  I just sat there and took my time and marvelled at everything I found.  It worked perfectly too!  You could tell it was loved by its owner as the key to the middle drawer was there and all caster were original.  It belonged to her great - aunt who had no children and no one wanted it.  They had a house contents sale and the machine was sitting outside by the boxes that were going to the dump.

[cookie]

Just printed off the oreo cheescake recipe! oh my! that sounds really really good...and to leave them in the freezer is a fab idea! thank you so much!

[Northern Rose]

Just printed off the oreo cheescake recipe! oh my! that sounds really really good...and to leave them in the freezer is a fab idea! thank you so much!

 

[Gizzie]

I really wish I had kept that machine my mother wanted to give me. I was only 24 or 25, and didn't really have an interest then. But I should have kept it just for the fact of it being my grandmother's.

I remember her sitting there when I was growing up and she would be sewing my sister's and my dresses. She made us everything! Patterns were always out on the floor, and we'd walk down to Woolworth's to pick out the fabric.

Northern, that's a beautiful quilt! Do they take very long to make?

[Northern Rose]

I really wish I had kept that machine my mother wanted to give me. I was only 24 or 25, and didn't really have an interest then. But I should have kept it just for the fact of it being my grandmother's.

I remember her sitting there when I was growing up and she would be sewing my sister's and my dresses. She made us everything! Patterns were always out on the floor, and we'd walk down to Woolworth's to pick out the fabric.

Northern, that's a beautiful quilt! Do they take very long to make?

That one took about 4 months.  However it took my daughter a long time to cut all the strips and she lost interest for a while then got back to it.  My youngest son's took about  a week to cut up the jeans and sew them together.  His pattern was much easier with bigger strips of fabric.  I have not finished his yet.  I still have to sew together the top, batting and backing and do the top stitching.  That will take me a weekend to do. 

[darla]

Northern...how many hours of daylight do you have in winter?

[Northern Rose]

Northern...how many hours of daylight do you have in winter?

Right now sunrise is about 9:30am and sunset is 4:00 pm. 

[darla]

Northern...how many hours of daylight do you have in winter?

Right now sunrise is about 9:30am and sunset is 4:00 pm. 

Ok ...now I will quit whining about it getting daylight at 7 and dark at 5:30. I would be a raving lunatic if got dark here at 4 pm. I hate the winter time when it gets dark so early.

[no rose colored glasses]

Wow, that is my sewing machine also, that was my grandmas    Good night everyone going to bed.  The only thing that has ever worked for me for dry skin, Eucerin body wash, I no longer have bad, dry skin, and I also take a fish oil capsule which helps tremendously. Hope everyone had a good Sunday 

[Northern Rose]

Northern...how many hours of daylight do you have in winter?

Right now sunrise is about 9:30am and sunset is 4:00 pm. 

Ok ...now I will quit whining about it getting daylight at 7 and dark at 5:30. I would be a raving lunatic if got dark here at 4 pm. I hate the winter time when it gets dark so early.

It is pretty depressing for the kids to go to school in the dark and come home in the dark.  Our never ending daylight in the summer makes up for it though.

[Northern Rose]

I am heading to bed early tonight in case the school buses are not running tomorrow. 

Good Night all God Bless.

[cookie]

good night all monkeys hitting the bed...talk to you all tomorrow! sleep tight!

[Brandi]

Wow, that is my sewing machine also, that was my grandmas    Good night everyone going to bed.  The only thing that has ever worked for me for dry skin, Eucerin body wash, I no longer have bad, dry skin, and I also take a fish oil capsule which helps tremendously. Hope everyone had a good Sunday 

Hi no rose!

Good night, and sleep well!