How many of you learned to sew with a treadle machine?
06-02-2011, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by countrycottage
I learned to sew on my mother's first sewing machine, a refurbished Singer treadle. She told me that a salesman came around to their house with some sewing machines in the back of his pickup truck. Daddy traded him several gallons of syrup he had made for the machine. In the 1960s she bought a newer treadle machine from the high school when they upgraded to electric machines. Mother never had an electric machine. I still have the first machine, my sister has the second one, and both sew great!
06-02-2011, 07:07 AM
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I did.
Dad later put a motor on it.
Could not be located when Mom died.
Also had a hand crank child's machine
that Mom took to the dump because
I was using the full size by then.
SAD now want it back.
J J
Dad later put a motor on it.
Could not be located when Mom died.
Also had a hand crank child's machine
that Mom took to the dump because
I was using the full size by then.
SAD now want it back.
J J
06-02-2011, 07:09 AM
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I learned to sew on a treadle machine at age 8. Made clothes (even my prom dress) on it until I got married in 1965 at which time I treated myself to a White electric machine. I love sewing and have fond memories of sitting at the treadle. Only negative I can remember is having to tie knots at the beginning and end of sewing because it didn't have reverse.
06-02-2011, 07:30 AM
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I learned on my Mom's old Singer treadle. It had belonged to my grandma. Mom used it, as did I, until I got my first electric one in about 1974 for high school graduation. I am 54 now. It never occured to my mom to buy a motor driven machine. ha!
06-02-2011, 07:31 AM
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yes, I have very fond memories of thet tredle machine,I was about nine yrs old,the one thing I still remember is the bobbin, I always thought it looked like a bullet,it was about an inch and ahalf long and to a sharp point on one end.
one day my mother gat upset and tossed it out literly,I remember crying, but what a long ways they have come now.
I have my mother-in-laws tredle machine now and cherish it.
d.swindle
one day my mother gat upset and tossed it out literly,I remember crying, but what a long ways they have come now.
I have my mother-in-laws tredle machine now and cherish it.
d.swindle
06-02-2011, 07:53 AM
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I had to learn on my grandma's treadle before I was allowed to "advance" to mom's electric machine. By the same theory, dad made me learn to drive on a stick before I could drive an automatic.
I just recently attained my grandma's treadle. It's in really, really bad shape, but I'm determined to refurbish it. Somehow.
I just recently attained my grandma's treadle. It's in really, really bad shape, but I'm determined to refurbish it. Somehow.
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