Welcome to all the Blog Followers!

I enjoyed visiting your blogs this afternoon, planning a nice quiet Sunday afternoon reading through your posts and looking at the pictures.  And suddenly, by magic, this evening half of you have disappeared.  

Was it me?  Did I hit the wrong button?  Am I suddenly too old for computers because it was my birthday earlier this month?  Or has blogger developed a warp in the ether and sucked your icons into oblivion?

So a special welcome to Acceleratio,  AnonymousG, and Duncan, whose icons are here tonight...
and an equally warm welcome to Artymess and Fabriquefantastique, whose icons have disappeared,
and another equally warm and apologetic welcome to the other two or three followers whose names totally escape me and whose icons have also disappeared... you will be welcomed back with open arms.

Terribly sorry everyone.  I feel such a dimwit.

Welcome to the Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing Blog

...which will be all about vintage sewing machines and putting them to good use.

The Muvandfarve channel started out on Youtube with this video showing how to wind a bobbin and load the shuttle on a long bobbin machine.  The bobbin winders are fascinating.  When I was little my mum let me turn the handle for bobbin winding.  The machine on this video was her machine, and the machine I learnt to sew on.  It was manufactured in 1897, so it is already 115 years years old and still going strong.  There is no reason why it shouldn't last another 115 years, and it is my sincere hope that there will still be plenty of people who know how to use these wonderful machines.

In fact, I'm on a mission...

PS.  The Muvandfarve channel has now been renamed the Lizzie Lenard Channel.  Farve is still indispensable when it comes to lighting, camera and editing, and he was totally unbothered at the suggestion that the channel should be renamed.