Joe Ayres

I am new to this forum, and have been really enjoying the vintage machine posts. This machine was my grandmothers. It is a New National, made by New Home, so I read. It usually lives on top of my New Home treadle when I am not using it. It is a wonderful machine, runs very smoothly, and has a very heavy base, making it quite stable in use.
I Just wanted to post this picture to show one of the wonderful uses of a hand crank machine. I decided to make a patchwork blanket, or do I dare say quilt, out of left over fabric from our local Days for Girls group. Flannel scraps. When I had put a bunch of pieces together and wanted to sew on some long strips, I figured out that if I put the hand crank on a stool, I could roll the material up on the table, and move the sewing machine!

JoeJr

What a great machine! And what a great project! I've actually had the recurring thought of trying something like that, sewing together scraps...if only I had a sewing machine to do it...

bkay

Yeah...........right.

bkay

bkay

Joe that machine is wonderful. I'm glad you your grandmother's machine is being used. I was a teenager when my grandmother died. I often wonder where her treadle ended up.

bkay

Joe Ayres

The New National was given by my mother to my sister-in-law, who used it in college. She passed it along to me.
I also have a New Home that was Milton Oscar Lewitzke's grandmothers. Mo has since passed. New Home made New National. One is 1914 and the other is 1916. I don't use the New Home so much. I am too tall, so my legs don't fit under to pedal the treadle.
Thanks for your replies!
Joe

Lady Diana

Dear bkay, your grandmother's treadle is with my cousin,
SHE STOLE EVERTHING BELONGING TO MY GRANDMOTHER. Including her treadle. I learned to sew on that machine, my DNA is still on it.