Happy dance!!!! Look What They Found!!!!
 

Yeserday DH and I went to the farm to help clean and take a load back with us - this time mostly items to donate to the Women's Shelter that my company supports (on the reservation).

This AM my younger brother decided to climb up into the attic and look around. Most was cleaned out years ago when the roof leaked, but it appears a few things got shoved up there since then.

Got an email message - "look what we found in the attic"

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I am soooo excited (where is the dancing banana when you need it LOL!!)

This is my Mom's old sewing machine. I thought my neice ended up with it, but recently learned that one is a newer Viking my Mom bought after I was married, and no one knew what happened to this one. Last summer when my Mom could still communicate better, she told us that her old machine was a White - and she indicated it was "upstairs" but we all assumed she was thinking it was in her sewing room, but we knew it wasn't there. I assumed this one was long, long gone like the Singer 201 that she had at the same time. Us kids got to sew on the 201 - but I know I sewed on her "good" machine too, but I could not remember anything about it.

This one will be coming home with me the next time we make a trip in. We weren't planning on going until June - but now I'm ready to go again soon!

Sooooo happy and excited for you! Don't know that I would be able to wait that long either!

Wonderful! I am thrilled for you and we all know you will make it look new again.

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YES!!! How awesome1!!1

Not always the most beautiful or rarest machines or even best running that are most prized. Great discovery!

Jon

Now, that's a wonderful treasure -- enjoy!

Oh Wow, that looks like the one I learned to sew on. You will love the knee thingy. I know that when she is revitalized with tender love and care she will be your favorite.

Woohoo! What a great story!

So very happy for you. Can hardly wait to see it after you get it up and running.

My BIL sent a few more pictures. He asked my DH if I was making him drive back to the Twin Cities to pick this up for me. It's going to be a while before we get back in, so for now I'll need to be content with pictures. Looks like all the parts are there - I have plenty of White rotary attachments, but I'll need a manual. This is not a common machine, probably from the mid 30's. Made right before the embossed Rotary machines. I think this one will go in the cabinet and the embossed one will go on the shelf.

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Cathy,

Congratulations on this find. I'm sure this machine's history will "Talk" to you. I'm so glad you found this one!

Jeanette

Whoo hoo! I am thrilled for you! I found my mom's old Singer 66 in the back of their garage this past January and was elated to bring it home. It is so wonderful to have your mother's machine. ♥

I'm happy they found it for you! I'm sure that one will get a place of honor in your collection.
Rodney

Congratulations, I am so happy for you.

Happy for you! Neat find!!

Fantastic! Thank's for sharing with us and be sure to keep us in the loop when you get it cleaned up and settled in at your home.

I love sewing on my White Rotary treadle. I know you will get that cleaned up and looking like new. Today I'm going to pickup a Western Electric in a bentwood case....will post pics later.
Might need some parts also.:eek: Jeanie in MO

That is awesome. I am so glad they found it.

Fantastic! We live for moments like that!!!

Cathy,

I'm thrilled for you and a wee bit jealous at the same time. I hope that machine cleans up and works like you want it too.

A bit jealous because my mom's last machine, a Kenmore in a cabinet it stuck in an outdoor shed in AZ and I can't get it. Been there now since '01. I suspect the termites, spiders, and mice will have destroyed it. That is if the shed doesn't leak.

Anyway, enough boo hooo'ing. Please do post more pics when you get the machine all spiffied up and running.

Joe

I wish I had got interested in the sewing machine before my Mom got to the point she couldn't answer questions. I know there was a zigzag machine when I was in high school, but I don't remember that one. What I do remember is sewing up a shirt for my boyfriend when I was 16. My Grandmother was going to do the buttonholes for me, and she re set the cuffs and collar as she decided I didn't do a good enough job on them LOL!!

Based on the estimate of the age, this White may actually be older than the 201 was. So I'm really wondering what machine Mom had that I sewed on as a teen. My mom would have been married about 30 years by then, so I expect this was one of her earlier machines. Who knows - it may have been tucked into the attic for the last 60 years. I'll have to ask my oldest Sister if she remembers this machine.

I think it’s really neat that you’ve found your Mother’s old machine. I have the only two sewing machines that my maternal Grandmother ever owned; the 1906 White VSIII treadle that was given to her used as a wedding present in 1928, and her Singer 404, case, and folding table that she bought new in 1959 or 60.

CD in Oklahoma

So excited for you. I understand the feeling of finding a piece of family history. I have my Grandmothers 66 that she got the year my mother was born - 1928. She wanted to sew dresses for her little girl and my Grandfather bought it for her. Unfortunately she was widowed 3 years later. Even having to work to raise 2 kids during the depression, that was the only thing she didn't sell. Eventually she gave it to my Mom when she had kids - probably in the late 40s. Then about 1960, when I was born, she went and bought a 401, and put it in the same cabinet. She told me she didn't know what happened to the original "Black Singer" machine.

Then I was at my cousin's house a couple of years ago. I asked to see the Featherweight she inherited from her Mother. Her husband mentioned the "other 3 machines in the garage" and my cousin said she had Grandma's machine too, did I want it? I figured out that when my Mom bought the 401, the shop put the 66 in a case (it's a 50s maroon-and-grasscloth case) and she gave it back to my Grandma. I don't think my Grandma ever used it again but it was stored with her stuff that my Uncle kept after she died. Then my Uncle died and my cousin cleaned out his place. It's rusty, frozen, and had no manual or attachments (I've since replaced them), but it's history is with this family. Since the 401 and cabinet are promised to me, one day it will go back into the original cabinet. I even found one of the rare 3-drawer Singer side cabinet to match the #40 cabinet (I'll have to refinish them together as they are both in bad shape), But yeah, Grandma's machine.

That's exciting! See? She knew right where it was the whole time.

Very excited for you since I also know the feeling. Look forward to future pics.

great find great memories

How cool is that! Wonderful....look forward to seeing the quilts you make with this family treasure.

Wow what a special find for you.....enjoy it. Happy quilting :)