McCall’s 5525 – Solved Technical Difficulties of a Different Sort

Left: Bernina foot, 20mm wide. Right: Willcox & Gibbs foot, 8mm wide

When Ann gave me this Willcox & Gibbs industrial it came with some good stuff; there were several needles (industrial machine needles are different from home machine needles) a spare belt (no servos here its belt driven), a few rather scary looking watch-those-fingers feet (see right, [...]

She Still Works and I’ll Call Her Cinderella

Willcox & Gibbs Industrial

A few months ago Ann got a call from a seamstress who was retiring and she wanted to get rid of her industrial machine, so Ann picked it up for me (thanks Ann!)  Turns out its a Willcox & Gibbs, and well-regarded company that made machines from 1868 to 1973.   After I got it [...]

Mouse Masticated

 

Here in Massachusetts we were hit with a whopper snowstorm this weekend, so I thought I’d get started on the Rucci dress.  However, that plan was sidelined when I unpacked the Christmas tree skirt and discovered that sometime over the summer $150 worth of  ball fringe trim from G Street Fabrics  had been chewed off of it [...]