http://tomrit.com/sewing Sewing from the male point of view Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:15:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Actually, one of my resolutions made last year was to make photography my main interest as it was for most of my life. So I have been spending a lot of my spare time on that. I set up a studio in my apartment, bought a cheap DSLR, and started ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=125 Wow, eight months... What has happened is I decided to once make photography my central interest as it was for many many years. So that has been where my money has gone. Then the past couple of months the car gods have been demanding sacrifices. In the mean time the local ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=122 Interestingly enough, there are a lot of things a semi-pro photographer uses that having a sewing machine and knowing how to use it will save him/her a lot of money. I say semi-pro because a full time photographer will find he makes a lot more money behind the camera than ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=120 I finally got around to sorting out the Singer 750 Golden Touch & Sew that came with the table in the previous post. It turned out to be in pretty good shape. I had to replace the rubber feed dog as the rubber had turned to a blob over the ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=115 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Library style table with the old Singer erected."][/caption] I picked up a sewing machine table today at the local Goodwill store. Cost about what it would have off ebay, but I did not have to pay postage and I got another sewing machine with it. It replaces ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=111 Have not written anything here in a while. Sewing machine has been waiting that belt, I have been busy with other things, the holidays were distracting. Other than that, No excuse, Sir! About all I have done was mend a seam or two, so nice not having to do that ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=107 Still waiting on the motor drive belt. This past couple of weeks has been busy in a negative sort of way. Things that should be simple have taken a lot of time. So nothing has gotten done sewing wise despite having several projects I want to do. I want to ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=99 I picked up a pair of Mundial 5 Inch Sewing Scissors from Amazon. They were under $7 (I see they have raised the price to $12) and added to another item I was buying to bring the amount up to the $25 free shipping level came out to about ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=100 I set up a temporary sewing machine table to use until I get something better. [caption id="attachment_94" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Inexpensive Sewing Machine Table"][/caption] It consists of a folding TV Tray Table from Walmart and a 4 foot shelf from the local Lowes store. I thought I would have to bolt them together, ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=93 The base tension on these old sewing machines is supposed to be set up with #50 cotton thread, as I mentioned in a previous post about tension, but I could not find any in my area. Well I finally found some. Unfortunately it was in a big spool that ... http://tomrit.com/sewing/?p=88