Sewing on a Treadle Machine
Anyone who knows me well knows how much I adore my Janome treadle machine . Since I purchased it over 5 years ago, I have made many things from clothes to curtains including numerous quilts, most of them heavy denim ones where I leave on pockets and other interesting pieces making for pretty thick layers of fabric to go through and have had no problems nor broken needles like I would get with my electric machines. About a year ago, I put out a a youtube video on How To Make a Frontier Skirt from a garage sale find sheet. I had no idea that video was going to get me non stop orders for these skirts as well as aprons and much more. I have had that thing going practically non stop until I finally hit the bottom of the order list just the other day. Here are a few of examples of the patchwork style skirts that are the most popular: My machine has held up beautifully through it all and I just recently published a How To video on using a treadle machine for tho...