To do list - Ack!
I should keep this with me and read it whenever I want to buy a new sewing machine.
Who else has a list?
Here's the list of all I still need to fix:
- learn how to do shellac clearcoat refinishing (and I guess repainting and decal application, too) so I can fix up Scratchy the Featherweight
- also shellac clearcoat the bedraggled 201-2 that I bought at Salvation Army because it had the stool that I wanted to go with the 42 case for the good 201-2, after I figure out how to get it unfrozen, that is - oh, and the foot pedal needs to be rewired or replaced, not to mention the veneer that's lifted around the bottom of both the cabinet and the stool (but looks in good shape...just needs to be glued down, which may not be nearly as simple as it looks)
- work on the 66 that came as kind of a package deal with the beloved Kenmore and needs a belt and who knows what else (awfully stiff, but I haven't started yet) and clean up the cabinet - this one has a knee lever, which is what my mom's had and I remember really liking them better than foot pedals
- fix and try out the 274 that I bought online thinking it would be simple for my granddaughter but then it arrived with the case smashed and I haven't been able to get the bobbin case out to clean it yet and it wasn't that interesting, so it's just been ignored on the kitchen table for months and now that I have the Featherweights, I really don't need it anymore...hmm
- fix the stitch length creep on the good 201-2 that requires taking off the handwheel to tighten something, I believe and it's working really well now if I tighten the stitch length very hard so I'm hesitant to do anything - and I want to polish it up and post a photo here
- fix the Western Electric that my husband bought (and I actually did NOT want) that needs to be rewired at the least, but the bentwood case is really pretty
- rewire the really pretty 127 that I bought sight unseen because the bentwood case was locked - and fix the finish on the bentwood case
- spend the rest of my life trying to restore the treadle Free 5 that needs to have the veneer replaced on the curved drawer, figure out how to clean and restore the cabinet finish without damaging (uh, further damaging, since I already scrubbed a little off on my very first attempt to clean it) the cool painted-on yardstick, apply the whole shellac clearcoat finish treatment that I will have learned by then and hope that the japanning doesn't just come off altogether because I really think it's rusted underneath
I counted and I only have 19 sewing machines (this may be the only place where that 'only' makes sense to anyone), including my mom's old toy 'American Girl' from the 1930s, and the modern Singer and Brother that I'm really truly going to sell.
Please post longer lists so I'll feel better!