Originally Posted by
J Miller
...have a big soft spot for treadles...
Joe
Me too. And they seem to take up the most room, dang it.
I’ve been working on the Boss Lady (my wife) to let me throw the dog’s recliner out onto the curb (the wife got another one, and we gave her old one to the dog). He (the dog) spends more time in our recliners than his anyway, so he really doesn’t need one, and I could get two more treadles set up in place of that recliner.
My ace-in-the-hole is that one of the treadles that I want to get set up is her industrial Singer 96-40 that we have fitted as a darning machine (hopping foot and no feed dogs). We ran it for a little while a few years ago with a small motor on it, but then we got the Singer 301A in her cabinet for FMQ and she’s been using that. I have located the part that I need to make the treadle stand operable, and since playing with the Singer 27K2 treadle that we got a while back, she thinks she may be ready to try treadle FMQ.
But, the dog’s recliner is still in the sewing room, and he’s been laying in it all day. I think he may have heard me talking about throwing it out.....
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