sueisallaboutquilts

I love looking at everyone's machines!! What a treasure you have and being your Mom's is the best!!!
Hope you have years of happy sewing with Tootsie!!

nursie76

Tootsie is a real treasure! So wonderful for you to have something that was your mom's. It will be so wonderful for you to sew on her and remember your mom! Thanks so much for sharing.

BETTY62

Wow. I didn't know they made all those attachments for machines way back then.

earthwalker

Lovely machine...and story. You certainly have a lot of attachments there...and they look to be in great condition. May you have many happy stitching hours together!

sak658

Lovely machine, and lovely memories..

Painiacs

Toots is a beauty! Lots of extras too!

justlooking

Very nice "Tootsie".

pocoellie

She's beautiful and such memories you'll have sewing on her.

littlehud

What a beauty.

thepolyparrot

How wonderful! :)

Isn't it curious what ends up in the drawers of sewing machines? A set of four nutpicks... funny. :)

I would love to try that Tack Master - how cool!

If all the pieces are present, you're going to love playing with that hemstitcher - it does the most beautiful detailing on linen! You draw a few threads out of the area that you want to hemstitch and run that line of drawn threads through the hemstitcher, first on one side of the line, then on the other. The stitching holds the fabric firm so that the "holes" stay open - it's very pretty!

A little tricky on that jackrabbit model 15, but even as uncoordinated as I am, I did it, so I'm sure you'll do it, too. I used it on curtains, but it's an heirloom detail on all kinds of linens, blouses, baby clothes, etc. If it turns out that you like the effect, you can slow your machine down with a $20 router controller from Harbor Freight - makes it easier to keep the fabric lined up so that the puncher is going into the same hole on the second pass as it did on the first.

How exciting to have all the vintage attachments to play with! :)