You mean collecting sewing machines is an addiction too?! If so then I am in
the early stages. I think I have four or five - my mother's old electric, my
own 70's vintage singer, and the new one my FI bought for me a couple of years
ago. I have also discovered an old cabinet machine - or
I am always drawn to old treadle machines if I see one in an antique
store. I especially like the ones with the fancy wrought iron legs and
treadle.
Same here, even though I already have one.
Sewing machines are a bit harder to hide than the fabric stash!
Amen to that. I have 8 machines
My favorite machine, a White Rotary, is a knee pedal, and the other 2 machines
in cabinets are the same.
Of course the 'workhorse' is my Mom's 1970's Singer with a foot pedal.
If I want to do lots of straight seams I use the White Rotary, if I need to do
button holes, zig-zag or blind stitch
If they seem like they are asking purely cos they've been told to (not that
common over here), I just say costume.
If they seem really interested, I tell them the truth (not that 'costume' is
a lie, but I go into detail).
The only time anybody's been snooty, it was another customer - I was
In a message dated 6/10/06 10:23:16 AM GMT Daylight Time,
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I just got both of Fran's books. Excellent...of course. Every school or
professional shop that makes period stuff should have them on hand.
Are some of the patterns complicated? You bet! Because these are
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:12:29 -0400
From: Megan M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [h-cost] Hand crank, treadle machines--where to look;
what to pay?
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Sarah Patterson
As this thread started I began to count up my machines and realized that I
was in the throws of General sewing machine addiction too. I have a Kaiser
treadle machine, bought in Germany in the 1970's from an antique dealer. It
sits in a table with wrought iron work picked out in gold leaf. The
Is it the foot pedal that is the trouble? I once found a table set sewing
machine on the side of the road on garbarge day that worked by a knee
pressed lever (much like the industrial machines have to raise the pressure
foot) It was too confusing for my poor old trained mind so I gave it to my
In a message dated 6/9/2006 1:19:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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I still embarassingly have 18 sewing machines.
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do they, too, give off certain
Pheromones that actually hypnotize women ...?
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I've just looked through them once and the only criticism I have is that
some pieces are 1/4 scale and then some will be 1/8 scale on the same page. It
LOOKS funky.
It's not usual; but when you have a book that contains tiny little
pattern pieces like side bodies (not to mention things
Sarah Patterson wrote:
I still embarassingly have 18 sewing machines.
Reply: Only 18? My husband wishes I had only 18. Anybody in the DC/ MD
metro suburbs interested in an antique machine head or two? I really do need
to downsize.. g
-Megan
Haha, want another? I've been trying to get rid of an older White electric
for some time and don't seem to be in a good area for it.
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There's a mention somewhere of a buttonhole machine that was developed in the
later stages of the american civil war, but I've never seen any physical
evidence of it.
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I think so, leastwise machines that are at least 40 years old that sit at
yards sales with all their attachments for $10.00 or featherweights with all
of their attachments booklets that date to WW2 just seem to call to
me...even my exhusband has been known to show up at the house after auction
Head, Carol Old Sewing Machines Shire Publications Ltd, Buckinghamshire:
c.1995
page 22
..In Germany in 1882 John Kayser built a sewing machine that could sew with
a zigzag stitch. This idea had been developed in America as early as 1854,
when a buttonhole machine was patented. The zigzag
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