Charlee

Tabby, we like the vintage machines for a variety of reasons. The straight stitch machines usually produce a beautiful straight stitch with no "jogs" in the seam from a thick "join" pushing the needle to one side or the other.
There's a nostalgia about sewing with these old girls too...there's just something about it that's hard to describe...and for many of us, we're old enough that it's like going back to our roots. These machines are consistantly workhorses, and to treadle a machine has it's own kind of special feeling...many love the sounds of a treadle machine, and many feel a "connection" to ancestors as they treadle...doing something the same way our grandmothers/great grandmothers, etc. would have done it...