I decided it was time to start eliminating my herd of vintage sewing machines. I put one n Facebook market place ( a 1938 Singer 15-91 with knee lever) to see what happens.  I was surprised that it sold within 24 hours!  It went to a nice lady who just rest retired and has a long arm.  I've been looking for someone to do a couple of my really big quilts and she agreed.  I just dread trying to iron that acre of backing  to get it ready.  And... she love piecing with really small pieces -- loves Bonnie Hunter.  guess who is gong to get a big bag of scraps that i thought I would do something with, but know I'll never get to it.

That is the prettiest "neutral" or tan-brown quilt I've ever seen; I think it is the white fabrics you included that put the sparkle in it. Great job on that one.

Wow! You found yourself a longarmer who will also chip away at your mountain of scraps and buy one of your of vintage Singers? How lucky can a gal get? 

Ironing the backing is a small price to pay. Put some good music on (Irish jigs?) and dance by the ironing board.

Iike the lay out.Vary pretty

They are very pretty. 

Very nice quilts. Sounds ikea your vintage machine went to a great home and you found someone to help get your quilts done too...win/win.

Thanks, Judy.  I call it 50 shades of brown. As for the pressing of the backing--I don't mind the standing,  I just wish I had a bigger area to spread out.  I do have a big  board, but it is close to the wall and other furniture so by the time I get part of it pressed, it gets wrinkled when I move it over to do more.  I'm tempted to put a piece of plywood on saw horses!

Thank you! Have a safe trip home.

Thanks, Ami.  I still have several machines to go.

I know you are skilled at building things with lumber. 

My DH built my ironing table using a 16" x 58" piece of Masonite pegboard as the top. (The idea behind using pegboard was to let steam from ironing cotton fabric pass through.) The rest of the table was built from odds and ends in his shop ... mostly pine 2" x 2"s.

I used one layer of Warm & Natural batting for padding and then stapled cotton duck over that for the ironing table cover. It now has a second layer of cotton duck after years of use.