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Thanks for the walk down memory lane! Great pictures to have. Very nostalgic.
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A cute young man.
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Joe, that is so cool...
I hope that someday you open a box and the missing Featherweight will be inside. I had one of those buttonholers at one time...must have gotten rid of it because I didn't have a machine that it fit. Boy, I did some really dumb things when I was young... |
Joe, I love the photos. Your mom has such a sweet expression and lovely smile. I would have loved to know her!
The kitchen is so...real...and lovely and I'm sure she turned out wonderful meals from it. Are the drapes in the corner what they called "barkcloth" at the time? Is your auntie pouring honey in your mom's tea? She better give you some, too. My aunt wore puffy hair with wide ribbons tied in the back. She was a corker, and still is. I just bought that exact buttonholer at a thrift store last week. I've read that it should work on my 15-91. I can't wait to try it. Thanks for the memories! |
Originally Posted by J Miller
(Post 7189280)
Mystery #2: A couple years ago in a bunch of sewing stuff we found a Singer button holler attachment in the rectangular green box.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]519080[/ATTACH] Nothing unusual about that but in it was a receipt dated 4-2-62. [ATTACH=CONFIG]519084[/ATTACH] From a sewing machine shop in Farmington, NM. I had thought we had moved to Phoenix by then. Nope. The buttonholer was bought for the FW. Well, I still have the buttonholer, but the FW is long gone. Wish I still had it. Mysteries are fun, aren't they. Joe Now I'm going to see if that buttonholer works on my FW. |
Originally Posted by maviskw
(Post 7190489)
I have that buttonholer. It came with my 301 in 1956, but the case is a cranberry red color. I have made many a buttonhole with that thing, since I had 4 boys and 4 girls, and made much of their clothes as well as my own. It made the most accurate buttonholes very quickly. I really dislike making buttonholes on my "new" $2,000 machine. I've tried many times but can't get the hang of it.
Now I'm going to see if that buttonholer works on my FW. |
Great pictures and nice to have those memories. Well, maybe not of a sewing machine needle stuck in your mom's hand. I did that with one of my FWs and it went right through the nail. OWEE! Glad you were there to help your mom. Interesting what we remember. Glad you solved your mystery!
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Great story! I love little mysteries!
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What amazed me is how many times I've heard that FWs don't have very good piercing power ... then it turns out it was a FW in my memory. That's um sorta funny really.
....................................... Button hollers: Singer; All green packaging = straight low shank All reddish packaging = slant shank doesn't count with the pasteboard boxes though. Greist also added ZZ sub versions in their line. Joe |
Thanks for the story and pics. so sweet. love it. glad you were there to help your mom
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