I fell in love with this machine, as soon as I saw it on ebay. The clean lines, the “atomic style” shape, unlike any other machine I’d seen before. Designed in Switzerland, and made in Holland, circa 1950s. For under $100 (including interstate postage), I think I got a bargain! The machine arrived in [...]
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Am “vacationing” at my favorite, veddy exclusive B&B – home of dear friends K & G. Their house is better than a museum or antique store, because there are so many collections of things I love, like vintage patterns, fabrics, and laces. G has his man cave to go to, where all his antique trucks [...]
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I bought this adorable “Little Betty” toy 50s sewing machine on ebay this week, because for $25,I couldn’t resist it! After playing with it for a bit, I was able to thread the top of the machine, and by cranking the handle, I got some sort of “sewing” happening. (Yes, it has a proper needle, [...]
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Hello everyone! I’m new here. I’ve been a “stalker” for a few weeks now, truly enjoying all of your creations and somewhat envious of your talent! Here is my first project I plan on making. It’s a pattern I won on Ebay, with the backdrop of my Grandmother’s 1947 Domestic sewing machine. I plan on [...]
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(Click on the smaller images to access fullsize versions) With everybody else raving about Simplicity 3688, I went to Simplicity 6433 and its ‘Fuss Free Fit’ for my first pair of ‘granny trousers’: it suddenly dawned on me that back in the 1980s trousers actually used to fit me right off the rail in addition [...]
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I thought I’d share some advertisements from an old magazine I have… The magazine is Pins and Needles. I thought these add were great – I also use a Bernina Record, so I just had to smile. You can see other scans over on my blog, I didn’t want to overload you all with heaps [...]
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Hello again! I’m back with an update on my adventures cleaning my Singer 66. As I mentioned before, it’s from 1923 and quite dirty, gunky, rusty etc, so I’ve slowly been disassembling and scrubbing everything. Most recently I took apart everything on the bottom of the machine, cleaned it, and put it back together. I’m [...]
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I’ll try this one more time I think must have done something wrong the first time I wrote this. My husband found these feet at a garage sell and bought them for me. I said,”Cool, now I need a sewing machine to go with them.” He said,”Oh, you mean these won’t work with the machine [...]
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As long as I can remember I have wanted an old Singer sewing machine. The dream came true a few months ago. Oh joy! I got it along with many other vintage treasures (read more about that here) It is black with a hand crank and I love it. I was a little unsure of [...]
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I have a old Singer sewing machine, like most people probably they are common. But I had it fixed up and serviced. It was long and hard journey but now she is well and working again. Now it onwards with my wearable art dress, deadline coming up fast more on that as soon as I [...]
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