Quilt Mom

That's quite the machine! With the harp space, it might be a good one to quilt with... I hope you enjoy it.

quilt addict

Both those machines look very good. The Davis is beautiful. Never see them that nice at this end of the state.

Would love to have that one.

:mrgreen:

Suzi

http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Sewing-Mac...item20bb9e5c3a

White treadle in Deerborn, Michigan - ends in 11 hours, pick up only, has no bids, no reserve, starts at $1

Charlee

I'm going to be looking and doing websearches for awhile on this one! :lol: Never seen one, or heard of it.
Evidently tho, Hitachi is a company that also produces power tools. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that it's a Japanese company, that this is a comercial machine not originally intended for home use, and that it was made for export rather than sale to Japanese homes (Indicated by the name being done in Western (English) lettering instead of the beautiful Japanese characters. (You'll notice that the neck is stuck out only far enough to allow "speach" and not far enough to get chopped! ;) :lol: )
Fun find, and it'll be fun to find out more about it! :)

nickylsf

I will post it today!

quilt addict

Charlee that is a great looking machine and I am sure that you will have a great time finding out about it. I am sure Billy will have some information in all his research on Japanese machines.

greenini

Vintagemotif,
Thank you so much for that reference. I think DH is really hot to rewire and that article makes it sound like a good idea. I don't have the physical ability to tredle, tho I'd love to be able to do it, so guess I'm stuck with that little ole electrical motor! And since it allows him to feel part of the process, what the hey, I figure he can't get into too much trouble ;) or at least it'll be trouble we can bail him out of, right?

greenini

Janice, Ha-ha, it wasn't MY mother who made my baby clothes. One of my favorite mom stories was that she had pinned a dress to hem and then hung it in the closet and proceeded to forget she'd pinned it but not finished it. She wore it to a friend's funeral all pinned up :lol:

If my mother had had to take home ec she would have gotten a big fat F, I learned how to cook at about 10 yrs old out of self preservation so I could eat :shock:

And sewing...not her :!:

deplaylady

Do they even do a lot with Home Ec in schools anymore? I mean the type like I remember, cooking, baking, sewing? In junior HS we had cooking and baking, and the sewing (made quite a few dresses), but but the time I got to HS it was an elective and part of the arts department. It was the era of the open-classroom idea (very short lived idea) where one huge room was broken up by partial walls, work desks and counters. one thing that stands out in my memory was a guy in Home Ec hemming at apron that looked up and laughed at me with my oxy-acetylene torch and goggles - I was in Jewelry and probably melting silver or gold at the time. My DDs both had some Home Ec, just a few weeks of each - they made a pie and for sewing got to pick from a set of kits. Not a lot of imagination there. We had to pick our patterns, materials, notions. My DM was totally down with this stuff, she was a GS leader and a 4H leader, I got to see girls come and sew before I knew how to sew. I'm the youngest girl - 3 older sisters, and at first what they had to sew their 4H projects on was a treadle machine - until the oldest got a portable Durkoff for graduation, and my mom liked so much that she bought one in a cabinet for herself. At one time we did have two treadles at my mom's house, my moms (a Singer) and my Aunts Iva's (a White)- after my mom died I'm not sure what happened to them.

Crossstitcher

Nancy the big machine you saw in the back ground is my 319. The other fiddle base is DH's 12K M.O.P. HC.