And then there were three!

Yep, Jim now has a total of three Singer 301’s on the way, with possibly one more.  I hope not, but possible.  He wants to keep two, and restore and sell two, or use them for parts… whatever.

So we had the studio discussion again (because there certainly isn’t room in the house for anymore sewing machines!) and agreed that it wasn’t going to work as an add-on to his shop.  In the end (yes!) I am going to have my way, my studio is going to be built out in the woods, alongside the creek!  Only I have this suspicion that I’m going to be sharing this space!  More expensive, because it’s a ways to trench in water and electricity, but worth it in the end.  Weather providing, when Jim takes some time off somewhere around Christmas, we are going to start clearing for it and the road to it!

We are NOT hiring a dozer to do it this time, they cleared far more than we were happy with when we built Jim’s shop, so we’re going to do it by hand.  Well with the help of the tractor!

I picked up some ribbons this morning.  I have some fun ideas in mind for these!

Jim is in the process of building a temporary work table out in his shop. Temporary because he’s building it out of wood, and he prefers metal tables, but has to restore his equipment before he can build a metal one.  I’m intrigued because while Jim is brilliant at many things, a carpenter he is not. He put white laminate on 3/4 inch plywood.  He wasn’t going to put the nice edge around it but I’ve asked him to do so, because if he can make it nice enough, perhaps I’ll hire him to build my work table! But I want to see samples first!  Ha!  I had him build me a chicken coop once… we won’t go there.

And these just for fun…

They’re about a week and a half old now.