Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
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Muv we are very lucky to have a 28k with very good decals with little wear on them. Yes we have little twins. lol
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OK, painted a hand crank silver, with Martha stewart paint. Also scraped all the loose paper off the inside of a stinky case, sprayed it with red primer, and primed the outside white. The last case I re-did, I used fabric to cover, and it was a giant pain in the tush. So, this one, I glued down all loose corners ans primed. Oddly, spray paint didn't cover well. So, I switched back to Martha's jug o' silver paint and painted the outside of the case silver and blue.
My house has been invaded by teenagers (cooking two pounds of ground beef for spaghetti and sent one of them to the store for two loaves of bread for garlic bread. considered just tossing the red meat at them, raw, but figured that the carbs in combo might cause tranquility) so, can't go to the hardware store for a drill bit. A drill bit? Yes, I am going to bravely drill the hand wheel of the blue machine for it's silver hand crank. Slightly nervous, but I really need to learn how to do this. I have a sacrificial hand wheel from a black machine to do first. Just don't want to have to change the bobbin winder out, nor give up the pretty blue and chrome wheel. Actually, it is good that my sons' friends came over, because tomorrow I can go to the good hardware store, where someone will know something, as opposed to HomeD tonight.
On the other quilty front, I just got Gwen Marston's new book on medallion quilts, and it is a complete joy. Here writing style makes me feel like she's talking to me, and I love liberated piecing. So, I think I will take advantage of that inspiration and piece a little while the boys watch a movie.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make dropbox work on this forum, so that I can post some pictures tomorrow!
Laura
My house has been invaded by teenagers (cooking two pounds of ground beef for spaghetti and sent one of them to the store for two loaves of bread for garlic bread. considered just tossing the red meat at them, raw, but figured that the carbs in combo might cause tranquility) so, can't go to the hardware store for a drill bit. A drill bit? Yes, I am going to bravely drill the hand wheel of the blue machine for it's silver hand crank. Slightly nervous, but I really need to learn how to do this. I have a sacrificial hand wheel from a black machine to do first. Just don't want to have to change the bobbin winder out, nor give up the pretty blue and chrome wheel. Actually, it is good that my sons' friends came over, because tomorrow I can go to the good hardware store, where someone will know something, as opposed to HomeD tonight.
On the other quilty front, I just got Gwen Marston's new book on medallion quilts, and it is a complete joy. Here writing style makes me feel like she's talking to me, and I love liberated piecing. So, I think I will take advantage of that inspiration and piece a little while the boys watch a movie.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make dropbox work on this forum, so that I can post some pictures tomorrow!
Laura
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Everyone's machines are so nice. Hope to see pictures of things made on them.
Sharon hope you mend real soon.
Joe you sound like my husband. He loves to tinker with the machines and get them running again then it is my job to sew with them. He has a FW he is tinkering with now and his mother's old minnesota B he wants to repair badly and it is in bad bad shape. He did free it up and the wheel turns and the needle bar goes up and down.
Sharon hope you mend real soon.
Joe you sound like my husband. He loves to tinker with the machines and get them running again then it is my job to sew with them. He has a FW he is tinkering with now and his mother's old minnesota B he wants to repair badly and it is in bad bad shape. He did free it up and the wheel turns and the needle bar goes up and down.
I have a Minnesota ~B~ I got from a forum member. It's not the prettiest little thing but it sews like a champ. Very nice stitches. It's a converted treadle machine and all I needed to do is clean it really good and replace a few small parts.
Tell you husband to take his time and it's going to be a success story the two of you can post about.
Oh, there's a thread or two about my Minnesota here, I just can't find them as the computer that had the links bookmarked in it died.
Joe
Nancy, this seller has been trying to sell it on ebay for some time. I've already got a mocha long bed, so it's all yours. And it's more than I pay for vintage machines anyway, so I'm out! :> Here's the listing http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-301-...t_13273wt_1206
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Well Candace, I sent 2 e-mails asking to see the machine in person. I also made an offer of $100 on one of the e-mails thinking that would at least get me an answer! Not so! Not a word back - not even a no thank you! Geeze! I thought that was a good offer as he has it listed on Craigslist for $125?
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OK, painted a hand crank silver, with Martha stewart paint. Also scraped all the loose paper off the inside of a stinky case, sprayed it with red primer, and primed the outside white. The last case I re-did, I used fabric to cover, and it was a giant pain in the tush. So, this one, I glued down all loose corners ans primed. Oddly, spray paint didn't cover well. So, I switched back to Martha's jug o' silver paint and painted the outside of the case silver and blue.
My house has been invaded by teenagers (cooking two pounds of ground beef for spaghetti and sent one of them to the store for two loaves of bread for garlic bread. considered just tossing the red meat at them, raw, but figured that the carbs in combo might cause tranquility) so, can't go to the hardware store for a drill bit. A drill bit? Yes, I am going to bravely drill the hand wheel of the blue machine for it's silver hand crank. Slightly nervous, but I really need to learn how to do this. I have a sacrificial hand wheel from a black machine to do first. Just don't want to have to change the bobbin winder out, nor give up the pretty blue and chrome wheel. Actually, it is good that my sons' friends came over, because tomorrow I can go to the good hardware store, where someone will know something, as opposed to HomeD tonight.
On the other quilty front, I just got Gwen Marston's new book on medallion quilts, and it is a complete joy. Here writing style makes me feel like she's talking to me, and I love liberated piecing. So, I think I will take advantage of that inspiration and piece a little while the boys watch a movie.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make dropbox work on this forum, so that I can post some pictures tomorrow!
Laura
My house has been invaded by teenagers (cooking two pounds of ground beef for spaghetti and sent one of them to the store for two loaves of bread for garlic bread. considered just tossing the red meat at them, raw, but figured that the carbs in combo might cause tranquility) so, can't go to the hardware store for a drill bit. A drill bit? Yes, I am going to bravely drill the hand wheel of the blue machine for it's silver hand crank. Slightly nervous, but I really need to learn how to do this. I have a sacrificial hand wheel from a black machine to do first. Just don't want to have to change the bobbin winder out, nor give up the pretty blue and chrome wheel. Actually, it is good that my sons' friends came over, because tomorrow I can go to the good hardware store, where someone will know something, as opposed to HomeD tonight.
On the other quilty front, I just got Gwen Marston's new book on medallion quilts, and it is a complete joy. Here writing style makes me feel like she's talking to me, and I love liberated piecing. So, I think I will take advantage of that inspiration and piece a little while the boys watch a movie.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make dropbox work on this forum, so that I can post some pictures tomorrow!
Laura
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Well Candace, I sent 2 e-mails asking to see the machine in person. I also made an offer of $100 on one of the e-mails thinking that would at least get me an answer! Not so! Not a word back - not even a no thank you! Geeze! I thought that was a good offer as he has it listed on Craigslist for $125?
Nancy
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There are still bargains out there but is seems most machines are very high compared to just a few years ago. Could it be the "Vintage Sewing Machine Shop" is driving up the prices?
Jon
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