Feet, Down Below Its Nee(dle)s

So in something of a lightbulb moment, I remembered that I had some inherited sewing machine feet in the deep drawer of my sewing desk, and decided to see what they were.

Aside from the ones I bought and use myself for Lilo, I found five boxes of feet.

Now, two of them are for Touch and Sews (and several miscellaneous feet got repatriated to those boxes) and are thus of no Earthly use to me as my grandmother's T&S is broken and merely residing in the cabinet. (I didn't have the multiple hundreds of dollars I was told several years ago it would take to repair it.) There is also a box of Greist feet, which implies that one of my grandmothers at some point owned a Greist machine. Also useless to me ATM since the attachment is completely unsuited to Singers.

But then there are a half-dozen feet that actually fit Maggie. So she now has a ruffler foot and a binder foot and four for which I've yet to identify their purpose. There was also a manual for a Singer 201-2 Electric Sewing Machine, with a purchase receipt from 1971 and a repair receipt from 1977, both with my mother's name on them. Mom, you still have this machine? Want its manual back? And possibly its feet?

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Almost got the sewing project finished in one weekend. Almost. The problem is that there's a topstitching step in there, and I ran out of thread the right color and don't have anything else close enough to match. But I did everything but that topstitching on Maggie. I would've done the topstitching on her too, but I only have three bobbins for her and they're all full. Must get some more long bobbins.

Went to see Harry Potter 8 today. A good conclusion to the series. I was crying in appropriate locations and, like everyone else, making mental notes of "ooh, this is different from the novel... but I kind of like it this way too." SO GLAD they kept Molly vs. Bellatrix verbatim to the book because that was honestly one of my favorite moments from the novel. Am amused to note that three weeks after its release the theater was still packed. People were lining up for sold out showings of Rise of the Planet of the Apes and, surprisingly to me at least, The Smurfs.

Waiting for the oven to ping at me so I can put the quiche in. Harvested a good lot of tomatoes, jalepenos, and the first habeneros today... debating between canning the tomatoes, or making salsa with them. Suspecting that salsa will win out due to less things to wash afterwards.

Inlaws have booked their flights and will be joining Wonderful Husband and I and my family for Christmas this year. Not going to stress! (Yet.) Still, maybe time to start talking with my mother about who's going to host Christmas this year....