Have you noticed the magic and charm of vintage items? It is no coincidence that they are in high demand these days. They manage to make the interiors of cafes and restaurants, business offices and classrooms stylish, and houses and apartments soulful.
Each little thing "with stories" can become an interior decoration. The ordinary sewing machine also has great possibilities. If you still have it in your closet, see how you can use it differently.
Grandma's old typewriter can still be used! But if it is more convenient for you to sew on a modern electric one, then the manual mechanism will become a decoration of the room.
Moreover, it will easily fit into any space: living room, bedroom or work area of a needlewoman. In this case, the old machine will serve not only as an accessory, but also as a kind of organizer for storing sewing accessories.
Designers use such mechanisms both in a special case, and without it. Of course, the machine itself needs to be carefully processed.
You can also carry out a staining procedure, use decoupage technology. Original idea there will be an arrangement on the surface of the ornament in the form of flowers, geometric patterns.
Well, if you got a foot sewing machine, you are even more fortunate! It can be used in everyday life, when decorating a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen of a summer house or a garden. The main thing in the process is to connect imagination, show originality and a little design skills.
In this case, you can use both the product as a whole and its individual parts.
There are many ideas for using vintage devices.
Have become very popular different kinds tables. In this case, the sewing unit itself is removed, leaving the work surface.
Often the old surface is replaced with a more modern countertop using only the legs.
By adding a small glass cover, you can get original coffee table that will brighten the living room.
Sturdy wood or stone coverings will help you build a small table for kitchen... It is useful for storing cutlery, towels.
Advice: using large-sized coatings, you can build a roomy dinner table for several persons.
With a small room size, using a similar table, you can arrange working area... And the foot pedal will help in more comfortable positioning of the legs while working with important documents.
A safe bet would be to stay in the bedroom. as a dressing table... The sides are complemented by several drawers for storing jewelry and cosmetics. One or more doors with a mirror are placed on the table.
Important! The difference is household furniture is not only originality but also versatility. Depending on the design, such a table will harmoniously fit into any interior style.
Unnecessary foot operated unit useful as a stand... Here you can place a small collection of books or souvenirs.
Lovers indoor plants use it to locate flower pots.
When the zone is supplemented with several drawers or slats, you will get a bright rack for storing bed linen, bedspreads.
Yes, yes, and in the bathroom too! This option will be appreciated by lovers of interior decorated in retro or Provence style.
In this case, a sink is mounted in the work surface. The legs of the sewing machine serve as the basis for it. Such a sink can be designed in any style, as well as additionally decorate the legs with the help of an ornament.
For country house there are also many options.
A spacious box is placed on the surface, which in the garden will serve original flower bed for your favorite flowers.
And by replacing the wooden surface with stable and strong materials, you can get a creative brazier.
Addition: in country house or a gazebo, the option using the vintage table described above will also come in handy.
Have you already figured out how you will use the sewing tool inherited from your grandmother? Or maybe they even came up with their own way? Your machine will cope with any idea and will become a real highlight of your interior.
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Perhaps you have an old sewing machine lying around and covered with dust.
In this article, the author of the YouTube channel "Vladimir Natynchik" will tell you how you can make a completely suitable and functional electric jigsaw from it.
This homemade machine does not require turning work in the manufacture. All you need are screwdrivers and wrenches.
Materials.
- Old electric sewing machine
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- Spray paint blue metallic
- Sheet plywood
- Bolts, nuts, washers M6
- Seconds glue, soda
- A pair of bearings, these are suitable
The tools used by the author.
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- hacksaw
- Wrenches, screwdriver
-, drills for wood.
Manufacturing process.
So, Vladimir found an old sewing machine "seagull".
One of the most convenient stationary machines for figured cutting, has a very simple design... Craftsmen make such devices from a wide variety of materials and tools. One of the most suitable foundations for making a tabletop jigsaw is a regular sewing machine. At the same time, the device does not have to be new or have an electric motor. In more detail about the principle of work and the manufacture of a stationary jigsaw, we will tell you later in the article.
First electric jigsaw was born in 1946, when the engineer Albert Kaufmann got the idea to replace the needle of a sewing machine with a thin file. For its time, the invention was highly original and received the public attention it deserved. Scintilla AG produced and sold jigsaws until it was bought by Bosh in 1954. To date, the period of validity of patents for inventions has long expired and a wide variety of companies have begun to manufacture jigsaws.
Modern stationary jigsaws are functional devices assembled from precise and reliable parts. At first glance, the models presented for sale may seem incredibly difficult to manufacture, but they are based on the same old principle of operation, albeit with a more optimized mechanism. Collecting a jigsaw from a sewing machine, we essentially return to the origins of this invention, partially complementing it with modern technologies.
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My master class will be useful to those needlewomen who have PODOLSK sewing machines. As a rule, such machines, having survived to this day, still sew quite well, but appearance they already have, to put it mildly, not very well. It's good that now there are many ways to make old furniture look good!
One of them is decoupage. Decoupage furniture is good because it does not require large material costs. In addition, absolutely anyone can learn decoupage, if there is a desire. And then surely all of yours old furniture will come to life and blossom with bright colors, or vice versa, acquire a noble appearance with a slight hint of antiquity.
So, I present to your attention a master class on decoupage of a sewing machine for beginner craftswomen.
Typewriter BEFORE decoupage:
My car AFTER decoupage:
From the materials I used the following:
First, I degreased the entire surface of the lid with a solvent and painted over with white acrylic paint in 1 layer.
After the first layer has dried, I painted over the lid and the bottom of the machine with a second layer of acrylic paint.
To make the surface evenly painted over, I also had to apply the 3rd layer of paint:
After the paint has dried, you can walk over the entire surface of the lid with fine emery paper, smoothing out all the irregularities and roughness.
Let's proceed directly to decoupage!
From the napkin, carefully pull out a fragment with our hands and use a file to transfer the image to the surface of the lid.
The essence of the "file" method is as follows. On a wide flat surface we lay out an ordinary file for papers, and on top FACE SIDE DOWN we put a fragment of a napkin. Spray the napkin from the spray bottle until it starts to float in the water. We straighten all existing folds, expel air bubbles from under the napkin. Then we take the file out of the water, wait for the water to drain and attach the file along with a napkin to the surface to be decorated. We gradually remove the file, so that the napkin does not move at the same time.
Thus, we glue the entire lid and the bottom of the machine with napkins:
At this stage, it is very important to cover all the glued fragments of napkins with PVA glue, otherwise, after the water dries, they will wrinkle and fall off. We do not regret glue, we thoroughly coat the entire surface! And then we wait until it dries completely.
To hide the joints between the napkins and add brightness to my typewriter, using a regular dishwashing sponge, I tamped the seams and joints with light green acrylic paint (I added a little light green color to the white acrylic paint and stirred it well so that the color was uniform).
Side view
View from above
End view
In principle, it was possible to stop at this, but it seemed to me that something was missing ... Therefore, I decided to add butterflies to the flowers.
It turned out brighter, more fun and more interesting! Butterflies revived her, it seems to me !!!
At the end, I covered all the beauty with varnish and waited for it to dry completely. ZAPON varnish dries very quickly, I covered the machine with it 4 times with intervals of 3-4 hours between applying the next layer. You can withstand a longer period of time between the application of varnish layers, the main thing is to make sure that the previous layer is completely dry. This completes my decoupage of the sewing machine!
I would like to add that decorating the car was not an end in itself. It was rather a “field for training” in the development of decoupage. But I'm still glad that now we have such a bright and summer car at home. So she cheers us up! I wish you pleasant updates too! Decoupage helps a lot with this!
Sewing machine decoupage (process)
Hello dear readers! Probably everyone remembers the old foot sewing machines of the world famous brand "Singer", at that time such a machine was especially popular with seamstresses, thanks to the bed with a footrest, which allowed significant savings on electricity, and was also famous for its ability to flawlessly sew even the thickest materials. But time does not stand still, and now, years later, the old foot-operated typewriter was replaced with a modern electric one. Someone simply disposed of foot machines, others disassembled and put them in the attic, but the third, the most resourceful ones, used it in everyday life. Well, what can be done from an old sewing machine will be discussed in this review.
The perfect solution for your home is a kitchen dining table with a chic wrought-iron base. The table top can be made of solid wood, as well as transparent or frosted glass. As for the base itself, you can simultaneously use two beds from identical sewing machines or separate one forged base, push the resulting parts closer to the edges of the table top, and between them fix a crossbar made of strong reinforcement, which will also serve as a footboard.
For the dressing table, you can leave the entire base entirely, i.e. not only a metal part, but also a wooden worktop with side drawers and a hinged lid. To make the table look more neat, all parts of the bed must be sanded and repainted in suitable color... And in the section with a hinged lid (where a sewing machine used to be hidden), place cloth-covered plywood boxes, and fix a mirror on the lid itself from the inside.
In order not to unnecessarily spend money on the purchase of a new desktop, you just need to make a wooden tabletop and fix it on the base from the old typewriter. The result is gorgeous workplace with an excellent forged base, at such a table you want to do double work.
An excellent idea for a garden recreation area, such a table will significantly transform the entire gazebo as a whole, and if you also make a similar bench for it, as well as a barbecue, it will generally be difficult to tear your eyes off. The table looks expensive and solid at the same time.
Some houses have tables for small things (keys, cell phones, flower pots, photo frames) in the corridor or hallway, so why not replace the boring monotonous table with a more elegant one with an interesting metal base. Moreover, for its implementation, no special costs are required, subject to the availability of an old foot-operated machine. It is necessary to decide on the countertop (wood or glass), clean, paint the base, and, well, connect the base to the countertop.
A great idea for those who like to fry a kebab, and most importantly - the chic base is already ready, all that remains is to order from the carpenter a cut of iron for the upper frying box, then weld all the parts with a welding machine, sand and paint, wait for the paint to dry out and go to fry the kebab.
Perfect solution- creation of a base for a garden bench or chair from old sewing legs. Planks can be ordered from a carpenter, then all parts can be connected, and also painted or varnished.
Such a flower bed is easy to care for, you do not need to bend over to thin out plants or remove all weeds, and it is convenient to water.
Another fresh solution is the washbasin on the bed from the sewing machine. A bowl-shaped sink mounted on a wooden countertop looks especially beautiful. The result is a set with a modern overtones and a vintage bias, such contrasting things are now very popular.
A ready-made cabinet with various compartments and mirrors on the doors is fixed on the base.
At night, the bedspreads removed from the bed can be carefully hung on a special rack, especially such a thing will be relevant in a children's room with several beds, so the kids will be accustomed to order. On the base from the machine, a box with bolted beams is installed, on which linen or bedspreads are subsequently hung.
First you need to prepare the tabletop, you can order it from the carpenter or, if you know how to prepare it yourself. By the way, the countertop can also be ordered from the firms engaged in the manufacture of furniture, name the dimensions, choose a shade, and they will make an excellent countertop for you.
Further, if necessary, the legs should be sanded, and painted in desired color, after the paint has dried, you can start assembling all the parts, namely the base and countertops. We fasten the metal legs to the wooden tabletop with screws. That's it, a great table is ready!
As you can see, it turns out that there are a lot of ideas of what can be made from a foot sewing machine, you just need to present the idea correctly, and then the result will be beyond praise. Friends, maybe you have your own interesting ideas regarding what can be done from an old sewing machine, write your reviews in the comments.
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