Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
06-28-2011, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Lostn51
Well kids I have a few estate sales I am going to with a friend of mine and we are hoping to come out with several vintage machines and quilting goodies. I just refurbished a machine for her a Belvedere in a two tone brown that was REALLY pretty. It is a straight stitch/zigzag machine that also uses cams for the decorative stitches. I wish I took some photos of it because I want to find one just like it. But she is just the sweetest thing and has a really funny story in her quilting and sewing ventures.
She is 34 and has owned a 1948 Singer Featherweight since she bought it in 9th grade. She has quilted several queen sized quilts on it and a king sized quilt. Needless to say that is her favorite machine in the world and until just recently her only machine in the world. She has a really nice 1940's Singer industrial, a serger, and now the Japanese full size machine. She told me that she is so tickled to have a machine that she can use a zigzag stitch with. I am hopping to find the cams for her machine and after seeing my collection and the other machines that I am refinishing I think she has been bitten by the vintage machine bug bad! :lol:
But the work that comes off of the FW she has is phenomenal!!!
Billy
She is 34 and has owned a 1948 Singer Featherweight since she bought it in 9th grade. She has quilted several queen sized quilts on it and a king sized quilt. Needless to say that is her favorite machine in the world and until just recently her only machine in the world. She has a really nice 1940's Singer industrial, a serger, and now the Japanese full size machine. She told me that she is so tickled to have a machine that she can use a zigzag stitch with. I am hopping to find the cams for her machine and after seeing my collection and the other machines that I am refinishing I think she has been bitten by the vintage machine bug bad! :lol:
But the work that comes off of the FW she has is phenomenal!!!
Billy
06-28-2011, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by deplaylady
Is it wrong to want a machine just because it's pink?
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...33480.html#des
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...33480.html#des
06-28-2011, 10:28 PM
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Bojangles,
Its beautiful!! The colors in your quilt are wonderful! I like to use different vintage machines to finish a quilt. I like the Pfaff 1222E for sewing bindings too, she's in the
Horn cabinet that she shares with her sister machines. I would like to see the whole quilt, please.
Sharon W.
Its beautiful!! The colors in your quilt are wonderful! I like to use different vintage machines to finish a quilt. I like the Pfaff 1222E for sewing bindings too, she's in the
Horn cabinet that she shares with her sister machines. I would like to see the whole quilt, please.
Sharon W.
06-28-2011, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
My mom "moved on" two years ago, but she was my partner in crime. We hunted machines together, and had a fabulous time cleaning and working on them. I'm more into the mechanical side of things, but Mom loved the woodworking. I have cabinets that she refinished when she was nearly 90. She sold off most of her machines before she moved into senior housing, but she probably had 40 or so at that time.
She stayed about a year and a half in senior housing, absolutely hated it, and at the age of 90, bought a home clear out in the middle of nowhere. She always said she bought the garage, and a house came with it. (It WAS a nice garage!!) When she died, she still had a Red Eye, a VS II, a 101 and her favorite machine of all, a 15-91, in addition to her modern machines, which she didn't particularly like. I found good homes for her favorites with granddaughters and a DIL.
She stayed about a year and a half in senior housing, absolutely hated it, and at the age of 90, bought a home clear out in the middle of nowhere. She always said she bought the garage, and a house came with it. (It WAS a nice garage!!) When she died, she still had a Red Eye, a VS II, a 101 and her favorite machine of all, a 15-91, in addition to her modern machines, which she didn't particularly like. I found good homes for her favorites with granddaughters and a DIL.
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Yep, a quilt is just a quilt until you think about all the people power that made the quilt! I often wonder what my mother would have thought if she could see me now! She died 4 years ago, 6 days after my dad died - it sent me into a tailspin that lasted a couple years. I didn't ride, didn't sew, did nothing. Then I decided I better do something with the horses and I started to sew again! I know my mom learned to sew using a treadle - but, she'd probably think I was crazy to see me now with 9 treadles in the house and a total of 33 or 34 sewing machines! I would have loved to be able to share this with her.
Nancy
Nancy
I started a quilting journal this morning, not my usual blog posting. So, what did I write about- my vintage sewing machines. I want my kids to have the story correct about my vintage machines: how I found them, how much I paid for them, the condition of the machines when I picked them up, the age of the machines, what I named the machines, what I mainly used the machines for, and what I made with them.
06-28-2011, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Phyllis nm
Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by Phyllis nm
Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by Phyllis nm
the book that came with it says 500, i tried to look it up, it was made in 1961. when i looked on the web it said never sew with out the o cam.
http://www.newenglandsimpleliving.co...0aslantno3.htm
but what page in the user/owner's manual?
I want to make sure I haven't missed something - I use a Singer 403a.
06-29-2011, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by deplaylady
Is it wrong to want a machine just because it's pink?
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...33480.html#des
http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions...33480.html#des
06-29-2011, 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Charlee
I couldn't agree with him fast enough...told him I was thinking of a plant stand for the deck.... :lol:
06-29-2011, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by jljack
Originally Posted by Charlee
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Originally Posted by Charlee
Oh my....just went out today to do a little "junkin" because I didn't want to stay at home. Can I help it if this stuff followed me back?
Grand total of today's expenditures? $10.00. (5 for the machine, 5 for the iron and buttonholer)
Grand total of today's expenditures? $10.00. (5 for the machine, 5 for the iron and buttonholer)
06-29-2011, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
My mom "moved on" two years ago, but she was my partner in crime. We hunted machines together, and had a fabulous time cleaning and working on them. I'm more into the mechanical side of things, but Mom loved the woodworking. I have cabinets that she refinished when she was nearly 90. She sold off most of her machines before she moved into senior housing, but she probably had 40 or so at that time.
She stayed about a year and a half in senior housing, absolutely hated it, and at the age of 90, bought a home clear out in the middle of nowhere. She always said she bought the garage, and a house came with it. (It WAS a nice garage!!) When she died, she still had a Red Eye, a VS II, a 101 and her favorite machine of all, a 15-91, in addition to her modern machines, which she didn't particularly like. I found good homes for her favorites with granddaughters and a DIL.
She stayed about a year and a half in senior housing, absolutely hated it, and at the age of 90, bought a home clear out in the middle of nowhere. She always said she bought the garage, and a house came with it. (It WAS a nice garage!!) When she died, she still had a Red Eye, a VS II, a 101 and her favorite machine of all, a 15-91, in addition to her modern machines, which she didn't particularly like. I found good homes for her favorites with granddaughters and a DIL.
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Yep, a quilt is just a quilt until you think about all the people power that made the quilt! I often wonder what my mother would have thought if she could see me now! She died 4 years ago, 6 days after my dad died - it sent me into a tailspin that lasted a couple years. I didn't ride, didn't sew, did nothing. Then I decided I better do something with the horses and I started to sew again! I know my mom learned to sew using a treadle - but, she'd probably think I was crazy to see me now with 9 treadles in the house and a total of 33 or 34 sewing machines! I would have loved to be able to share this with her.
Nancy
Nancy
I started a quilting journal this morning, not my usual blog posting. So, what did I write about- my vintage sewing machines. I want my kids to have the story correct about my vintage machines: how I found them, how much I paid for them, the condition of the machines when I picked them up, the age of the machines, what I named the machines, what I mainly used the machines for, and what I made with them.
06-29-2011, 07:07 AM
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Well, not right away!!
Miz Johnny, I figured it out. I told myself to go work on the quilt, but I kept finding myself googling for the answer. You are correct! I knew you would most likely know the answer right away!
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
Vickers, perhaps? The early Spitfires had Vickers guns.
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
For those that like a mystery:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-133569-1.htm#3575279
I'm still too green for the vintage machines to know what type. I know the Singers and some of the other American machines since we see lots of them here, but this one just may be a British or German machine. I could be spending hours researching, but I have numerous quilts that need to get done. Plus, a cabinet and treadle need to get assembled.
Maybe Miz Johnny or someone else here can answer this one quickly.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-133569-1.htm#3575279
I'm still too green for the vintage machines to know what type. I know the Singers and some of the other American machines since we see lots of them here, but this one just may be a British or German machine. I could be spending hours researching, but I have numerous quilts that need to get done. Plus, a cabinet and treadle need to get assembled.
Maybe Miz Johnny or someone else here can answer this one quickly.
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