Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
06-10-2012, 05:39 AM
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Janice, at my Wednesday night Strip Club, we all got a Jelly Roll and raced to see who could finish a top in the shortest time! It is a cool pattern. You take the 40 - 42 strips and sew them all end to end with a 45 degree seam . . . like doing binding! You end up with one very long connected strip! You then cut one end apart, and start sewing the '2' strips together. When the 2 strips are sewn into one double strip, you cut the end apart again, sew 4 strips together, and so on until you have made 5 seams! You end up with a really cute quilt top that only needs borders! There were 12 of us doing these strips - fabric everywhere - but, we all finished our whole top in less than 3 hours!
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06-10-2012, 05:41 AM
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There was a lady at Ray White's class had a rig to put any treadle machine on the repair table. She had a hand crank mounted to the right height - all she had to do was adjust the height and she could hand crank the machine she was working on at the time. It is an old knife sharpening rig. It has a clamp on the bottom - she shims it to height of the machine's spoked wheel. Then she made an L shaped thing to go in where you turn and it turns the spoked wheel - the L shaped thing is out of wood - a piece of wood with a peg - the peg is what goes in the spoke of the wheel. Do you get some picture?
06-10-2012, 05:45 AM
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06-10-2012, 05:47 AM
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I oiled up the Eldridge this afternoon - this one has a place that gets stuck - it will turn then it will stick - lots to clean
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She is a mess - someone got a bit aggressive with the throat plate - I'm wondering if one off another National might do the job - I'll have to measure.
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She is a mess - someone got a bit aggressive with the throat plate - I'm wondering if one off another National might do the job - I'll have to measure.
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Charlee, I will try to check in as often as I can - but, in summer I spend most of my time outside!
Kathie, you are right - $400 is way more than people around here will spend on a treadle!
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06-10-2012, 06:05 AM
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Two Spools is spoken for.
06-10-2012, 06:37 AM
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We have helicopters going over the house at 10:30pm??? They were there last night too. Sounds like a war. Fire crackers and helicopters... maybe we are secretly being invaded - nobody is suppose to notice a few helicopters now are they? We have neighbors can't keep their bills paid but they shoot off fireworks all summer... go figure.
06-10-2012, 06:49 AM
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A few days ago DH asked me what I want for my birthday....can you guess what I told him? "Take the Decorah Posten treadle irons and put on a top that I can use with all my various treadle heads." He took the challenge!! Here's the start. This won't be a MUTT like Dan was talking about, because it will be way too big and heavy to travel, but it will be a MUT. Isn't it cool? It's a true Frankentreadle!!
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06-10-2012, 06:53 AM
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06-10-2012, 06:55 AM
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There was a lady at Ray White's class had a rig to put any treadle machine on the repair table. She had a hand crank mounted to the right height - all she had to do was adjust the height and she could hand crank the machine she was working on at the time. It is an old knife sharpening rig. It has a clamp on the bottom - she shims it to height of the machine's spoked wheel. Then she made an L shaped thing to go in where you turn and it turns the spoked wheel - the L shaped thing is out of wood - a piece of wood with a peg - the peg is what goes in the spoke of the wheel. Do you get some picture?
Did you happen to take photos? Sounds like a very clever use for the vintage knife sharpening machine.
06-10-2012, 07:07 AM
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