Today has been a busy day. It is William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, what an insane number. I can’t imagine that anything I would write would be famous 450 years from now. What an amazing author. And to celebrate it I passed out my books for World Book Night. It is so much fun giving people the gift of reading. I can only hope that they enjoy my selection as much as I did or at least pass it on to someone who will. Reading is such a wonderful experience.
I also began the daunting task of converting my vintage sewing machine cabinet to accommodate my machine. I had to cut the base and attach it to spring mechanism, I also had a piece of wood cut to sit around my machine when it was level and then I had to make sure it would come up to full height so that I could use the embrodiery attachment. I still have a few steps left, I need to sand and stain, but it is coming right along.
Base Board Attached
Ready to accommodate the embroidery attachment
Level to use as flatbed
Add on wood for flatbed use
Machine inside cabinet
My new home
My old home
Take care, have a good night, and happy sewing!
I leave this post with a quote from Shakespeare:
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
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Isn’t it amazing that Shakespeare’s works lasted. Very impressive. I studied him and his works in college and a little more on my own when my oldest two were in high school studying him. Then a little more when my daughter was doing a couple of the plays. Hubby and I went to see Midsummer Night’s Dream in San Fransisco when we’d first started dating. So, of course that is my favorite of his plays!
I’m impressed with your conversion. I’ve decided to wait for hubby to build me one.
Wow, you’ve done a beautiful job converting your sewing cabinet; it looks amazing!
I think my new old machine deserves a wooden cabinet of it’s own too – will show DH & use Annette’s DH as an example 😉