Originally Posted by
purplefiend
Vintagemotif/Monica,
Katie Farmer's White picture albums were on Webshots. They decided to "fix" Webshots and ruined a good thing. I had my photos on Webshots and now I can't access them. The new website is "Smiles", it won't accept my user ID or password, so I've lost everything that was in my Web shots albums.
Sharon
Sharon, Thanks! That's sad that you lost everything since it doesn't accept your password. I'm sure you are frustrated with "Smiles". I would be. Do you have images on your computer still? Downloads? I hope so.
Now that Webshots is gone, there are fewer images of sewing machine to be found. I guess many folks were using Webshots that collected vintage machines. Sadly, many of those images are now gone too.
I learned how to identify machines by some of those photos. I would compare them to some of the machines ThayerRags has posted on his site since he has named all of his machine. I would google X machine and images of machines X, Y and Z would show. It was my way of learning. I would then figure out what machine Y and Z would be through google searches. It was a learning game for me. And that is how I discovered many other wonderful sites.
I found Quilting Board by a google search of quilting with vintage machines. Oh well...hopeful folks will make a simple blog of their machines so that others can use them as a reference tool.