So over my 4 day Thanksgiving weekend in between fighting off a cold and my sewing machine breaking (yes I'm devastated), I managed to finish both the projects of my dresser and the door headboard. I am still deciding if I like the door headboard, it is on the wall. I don't like the pictures I took of it so I won't be sharing it today. But I will be sharing the finished dresser. After stripping it and sanding it down I stained it using a cherry finish. I still have yet to find fixtures that I like for it, so I took some heavy navy seersucker scrap fabric and knotted it to make drawer pulls, which I actually really like, so I may work on creating a more permanent version of those to use. It also is missing all the keyholes which I may make out of punched tin.
Now in regards to my sewing machine. A wire is broken in the foot pedal, my wonderful BF spent a long time last night trying to fix it. He had it working and then it quit :(. I checked with Sears to see if you can order a new one and you can't, and they offer no other suggestions. It just seems a shame to throw out the whole machine b/c of the foot pedal. So I will be searching the internet to find a replacement and hopefully won't have to wait too long, I have so many Christmas projects waiting to be sewn! So if anyone has an older Kenmore machine working or not and would like to get rid of the foot pedal, I would be happy to buy it from you!
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ReplyDeleteDid you check the Waddington Sewing Center? I don't know if it's still open (used to be on 37 just past the Buck Rd. towards Oburg) but they'd probably be more helpful than Sears.
Good luck!
Kari
Thanks for the suggestion! I ended up after extensive searching finding one on some random sewing parts website hopefully it works or I will definitely be trying the waddington sewing center!
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