Originally Posted by vschieve
Originally Posted by It'sAboutTimeMamaw
My great Aunt taught me to sew on a Singer Treadle that belonged to my Great Grandmother. I now have the machine but I have'nt used it since I was in my twentys. Have fun on you new machine.
My mother married in 1945 and was given a treadle as a wedding gift, a New England Queen. She made most all of my clothes on it even up into high school. I sewed on it in Jr. high, and did my home project (a dress) on it when I tool Clothing I & II in high school. Then it sat for years, and just almost two years ago my brother and I loaded in his truck to a Singer dealer here in town after I met a lady at JoAnns one night that teaches there and told me the owner works on them. He put a new belt on it, cleaned and oiled it and I am now piecing a Texas Hill Country Quilt on it that I designed myself. (One of my UFO's!)
You have a beautiful treadle machine. We have one but it wasn't treated very well before my mother got it.It belonged to my great-great-great?-grandmother.Anyway it was my grandmother's grandmother.It was kept in a house and used til my great-great grandmother died and someone put it in the top of the barn.It was forgotten about til the barn was torn down. So we have just revarnished it and use it in the entry.Every repairman told us that all those years in that barn loft had rusted the sewing part to the extent that it couldn't be fixed.
I showed my daughter your picture and told her that it was what a treadle machine should look like,all she had seen the outside out of ours.