My Vintage White Rotary!
Hi, All,
No questions here, just wanted to gush a little. I recently fell back in love with my first love: a cast iron white rotary machine. I've been told it was one of the first models of electric sewing machines and that it's dated either 1913 or 1918. I bought it for $25 in a Seattle vintage shop in September of 2000. I'd just graduated from college, was living in a city for the first time in my life, and knew not one thing about machine sewing. I bought the machine on a whim and sewed my first quilt on it (which I still have, though it needs some patching).
I moved A LOT in my twenties and my White ended up in my mother's basement. I rescued it from there recently, almost sold it, but instead had it tuned up and used it last night for the first time in ten years. Even though I now have four machines total (Juki 2010, Juki F400, Janome MyStyle), I'm SO glad I didn't surrender this machine. Sure, it's loud and it's heavy, but it sews a stunningly beautiful stitch and has this satisfying chugga-chugga sound as it feeds the material. It was sewing through six layers of duck cloth without missing a beat!
Just wanted to share!
Best,
A