Need to know why everyone buys vintage Singers
#33
Originally Posted by EasyPeezy
Not everyone. I guess there's already my DH's GM's treadle sitting here.
He's the only one who can use it. I never got the hang of treadles so it
will probably remain unused as I took over the sewing jobs. I use my
Janome or my Kenmore or just mend by hand if I have to. Yes, I do
mending. <sigh> LOL
He's the only one who can use it. I never got the hang of treadles so it
will probably remain unused as I took over the sewing jobs. I use my
Janome or my Kenmore or just mend by hand if I have to. Yes, I do
mending. <sigh> LOL
#34
I've been sewing and quilting for many years, and just recently bought a 1934 Singer 15-91. I do FMQ on it because it has a large throat, it's powerful, makes beautiful stitches and it's very forgiving.
And it's also a gorgeous machine.
And it's also a gorgeous machine.
#35
I bo't a Singer 66 red eye just because it is just so beautiful. It weighs a ton. Sews a perfect stitch even tho the needle must have come with the machine in 1916 from the looks of it. LOL I also have a Jones 1904 just because I love looking at it. NEVER give up my Berninas.
#37
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I love my new computerized machines, and they are what I use for most sewing. But when I look at my old Singer I feel warm and fuzzy inside, like when I would stand at my Mom's elbow while she sewed and she would reach around and hug me. Or I would wake up in the night with a bad dream and hear the old Singer humming and know all was right with the world.
#40
When I started sewing many years ago Singers were THE machine company. I'd really never seen any others when I was in school. I started sewing when I was 11 and then we moved selling the machine my Mom had. It wasn't until I was about 13 that my Dad brought home a used 403 that my sisters and I sewed our school clothes on. I have that machine after my sister that got it from my Mom wanted to throw it in the dump!! My youngest sister saved it and gave it to me. I cleaned it up (sister is a smoker) and I fixed the bobbin tension (reason why sister thought it was no good anymore) and it's in my sewing room now. I also have the 626 I bought in '65 when I graduated and got my first job at the phone company. Made many dresses for work on that in my apartment and still have that one. Then about 6 years ago fell in love with Featherweights and found one in a fabric shop and bought it for my birthday. I also have newer computerized machines (Viking, Bernina 440QE, Phaff 1171 and 2 sergers) but can't give up any of them--old or new!! The 403 I'm thinking of giving to my niece after she gets out of college and on her own since it was her mother that saved the 403. She doesn't sew but thought she might want it for mending if nothing else. It's in the original cabinet and maybe she can use it as a lamp table until she needs to sew.
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