Ruffler Video
The W&G ruffler is a fun attachment. It creates beautiful ruffles, but only ruffles. Some of the modern rufflers let you make pleats, but not most antique rufflers. Hope you enjoy the video showing how to use the W&G ruffler.

New W&G in the house!
Hey All!! It's been awhile since I've had something to post, but now I do. I got another W&G treadle this summer that had some attachments in the drawers. I looked for videos on line showing how to use these little darlings and didn't find any, so decided to make some.

I put two up today and have two more in the works that I hope to put up soon. Videos take time. :-D

Here's my latest W&G vids...hope you find them useful.

Part 1: A survey of the goodies...

Part 2: Using the Tuck Marker...

 Coming up...Ruffler and Hemmers.

Hope you are all enjoying to chainstitchers!! I've been using mine to make baby gifts.

Did Willcox & Gibbs Include Attachment Samples?

I just brought home a "new" W&G treadle chainer that came with a collection of attachments. I found a perfectly sewn sample of small tucks on linen or muslin included in the original box with the Tuck Marker. My question is: "Is this sample something W&G included to help their customers see what the attachment could do, or, is it something an owner put in there for themselves?"

I suppose it could have been put in there by the retailer selling the machines, too.

Just a fun curiosity to explore. Terri in MD said there were samples with the Tucker and also the Ruffler attachments. Very interesting! Hopefully, others chime in and let us know if they had samples, too. Would be fun to compare samples!

 

Tuck sample found in original Tuck-Marker box

 

Original Tuck-Marker box with contents. Note there are two different plates for the attachment. One is for large tucks and one is for very small tucks.

If you found a sample with any of your W&G attachments, please let us know!!

1885 Technology Meets 2013 Technology!

 

Here's he answer to yesterdays post!

 

QUILT MULTI-TASKING or DIARY OF A MAD WOMAN!!

Today, I probably did something never done in the history of quilting. Now...can you guess just where I am doing a little piecing on Wilhemina?? I'm doing some multi-tasking...a little scrappy string piecing Bonnie Hunter style and a little something else. I'll add a clue each day to see who can guess the second task I am doing while piecing. ;-)

TILLIE'S DONE!!

The girls finally finished up the Tillie's Treasure quilt! Yay!!! Wilhemina and Gibbson Girl did a great job! This quilt ended up being pieced and quilted entirely with these two W&G machines. Piecing was done with the 1885 hand-crank W&G and ALL the quilting was done on the 1892 treadle W&G.


1885 Hand-Crank W&G (Wilhemina) and 1892 Treadle W&G (Gibbson Girl) with their finished
Tillie's Treasure Queen-Size Quilt.

 

 

The binding was sewn on the front side with my 1909 Davis Vertical Feed treadle, which is a

needle-feed/walking foot machine I use for all my bindings. Then it was turned and hand-stitched to the back side of the quilt.

 

I spent months trying to decide on how to quilt the borders. I was thinking of doing some free-motion quilting, but just couldn't bring myself to do it. No matter what I came up with, the main top quilting seemed to insist on straight lines done with the W&G treadle. So, I gave in and made it simple. I think it was the right thing to do and the continued geometric quilting was the best.

 

 

 

This will be Tillie's new home on the queen-size bed in the guest room.



Traveling Laptop Sewing Machine

I recently discovered another nice feature of my W&G hand-crank machine. It makes a GREAT laptop sewing machine in the car! In the bad photo below, I have it comfortably sitting on my lap while sewing a few half-square triangles.

I was able to sew easily while the car was parked, but also while moving. FUN!! I don't think I could do this with any of my other much heavier larger hand-crank machines.

1886 Willcox & Gibbs chainstitcher as a traveling laptop sewing machine