DragonPoodle Studio

I've joined the Marie Kondo craze, although in  my own defense I must say that the urge to clean out and tidy-up hits me every year...

Once upon a time I rescued a completely trashed Domestic High Arm Fiddlebase then completely restored the treadle, cabinet, and machine ...

I don't know why it took me YEARS to think of this.  Instead of explaining these things over and over again in the posts, here they all ...

PSA = public service announcement Focus on the number 31 above.  The camera was directly above 31, so because of camera angle and persp...

The answer is stupefyingly simple:  make it yourself the same way you do at home.  If you make drip.  Although my method would work wit...

Hello there dear readers.  I've been on a favorite path, boldly going where no other sewing machine restorers have gone before. ...

One of my favorite things (seriously) about going to the NC TOGA is driving by fields of corn.  I grew up in Ohio, in the Corn Belt.  NC...

TOGA:  TreadleOn Gathering and Academy, an antique sewing machine swap meet and general rumpus. I arrived in Monroe NC last night and...

I'm pretty lazy and the following message does not change from year to year.  So I just cut and pasted it from a post from bygone years...