How many of you learned to sew with a treadle machine?

Reply Subscribe

Page 9 of 20

« First

Last »

Thread Tools

06-02-2011, 05:47 AM

#81

chairjogger

Super Member

Join Date: May 2008

Location: My favorite place in the world is Lake Erie Region USA

Posts: 2,743

I did, must have been ten. Little yellow gingham stuffed animal. First project.

the bobbin had to be wound for me first. It was a long bullet like holder dropped in the top of the sewing base.

Have no clue where that wonderful machine ended. Did not move with us to our new home.

Fun to remember, thanks for the post!

Ell

06-02-2011, 05:51 AM

#82

Jo Mama

Senior Member

Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: N.W. Florida

Posts: 866

My gandma had a treadle but all I could ever do is make it go forwards and backwards. Guess I was too little to get the hang of getting it to go one way.

06-02-2011, 05:53 AM

#83

Just Me...

Super Member

Join Date: Apr 2011

Location: Ohio

Posts: 2,077

I learned on a a treadle! :) That 'swishing' sound takes me back to the bestest of memories! :)

06-02-2011, 06:04 AM

#84

DebbyT

Senior Member

Join Date: Jun 2010

Location: Grawn, Michigan

Posts: 643

My mother would not let me and my sisters touch her electric Kenmore machine. When I was 7, she got a singer treadle at an auction for $3.00. I made my first skirt, with a waistband, then lots of barbie clothes. She never let us touch her Kenmore, but when she wanted to use the treadle for what ever reason, we had to give way. I don't know what happened to that Kenmore, but my sister still has the treadle. We drew straws.

06-02-2011, 06:11 AM

#85

jean knapp

Junior Member

Join Date: Dec 2009

Location: florida

Posts: 144

I sewed a little on my moms electric but in middle school I had to sew on a threadle. My friends laugh guess I was in a poor neighborhood and a very polish one.

06-02-2011, 06:34 AM

#86

Happy Linda

Super Member

Join Date: Jan 2011

Location: Port Ludlow, WA

Posts: 1,379

The high school I attended had a treadle that I used. Would love to have one now. It had a purr like no other.

06-02-2011, 06:39 AM

#87

PolkaBabe

Super Member

Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Iowa City, IA.

Posts: 1,076

I learned on a treddle that dad bought mom after they married in 1938. I haven't used it in 20 plus years, but with some many of you having featherweights I do want to dig it out sometime & see.

06-02-2011, 06:40 AM

#88

Lucy90

Super Member

Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: Minnesota

Posts: 1,918

I learned on my grandma's machine and then we got it at home. I now have my ow treadle as the one we had is gone. I like my treadle.

06-02-2011, 06:40 AM

#89

Mona Lisa 2011

Senior Member

Join Date: Apr 2011

Posts: 347

Quote:

Originally Posted by countrycottage

I learned to sew on my mother's first sewing machine, a refurbished Singer treadle. She told me that a salesman came around to their house with some sewing machines in the back of his pickup truck. Daddy traded him several gallons of syrup he had made for the machine. In the 1960s she bought a newer treadle machine from the high school when they upgraded to electric machines. Mother never had an electric machine. I still have the first machine, my sister has the second one, and both sew great!

I am about to get delivery of one. Where do I go to find information on a Singer treadle; incase I need to have my memory refreshed?

06-02-2011, 06:45 AM

#90

Margie

Super Member

Join Date: Mar 2007

Location: Murrysville, PA

Posts: 3,007

In 7th grade I took home economics(do they even call it that anymore?). We learned to sew on treadle machines first and then after we finished our apron, moved to the "new electric" machines lol. We didnt own a sewing machine so it was all new to me.