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Happy National Sewing Machine Day!  June 13th is the first of TWO National Sewing Machine Days!  The second one is September 10th.  Sewing machines are so wonderful that they get TWO days to celebrate!

In honor of National Sewing Machine Day, here are some photos of my latest sewing machine.  I got this machine back in April, but never posted any photos.  This is a 1950 White Rotary Series 77.  It is in a lovely desk/cabinet.

cabinet opened up

In the top drawer of the desk is a holder for broken needles and pins (the black circle).  It has ...

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I've been slow stitching today.  I finished stitching down the binding on a baby quilt.

hand stitching the binding

Since the back is Minkee, I stitch the binding to the back of the quilt then hand stitch it to the front.  It's much easier that way (at least for me).  Here is the full quilt.

baby quilt

straight line quilting

quilting from the back (color isn't true, sorry)

I've also finished one of the 'We're On a Roll' toilet paper quilts.  I hand quilted it.  It was mailed off to my inlaws earlier this week ...

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I got distracted this morning with a 'squirrel' project.  Sew4Home offered the cutest pillow this morning in their newsletter.  They have some of the cutest projects.  This one is a Ukulele pillow.  I knew my grandkids would like a Ukulele pillow to play with.

I did do things just slightly different than their pattern called for.  Instead of cutting the interfacing, then ironing it on, I decided to iron interfacing to the material, then cut it.  I figured it might make the seam a bit stronger.  Also, I sewed the buttons on before I sewed the front and back pieces ...

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