May I ask why you use a treadle machine. You don't use an electric machine at all. I'll have to try my Grandmothers next time I visit my son whom I gave iher treadle to a few yrs ago.
I've been reading a series of books The Immagrants and how the women spun theirs wool and sewed all their clothes by hand and what a joy when her husband bought
her a treadle.
We have come along way's haven't we girls!