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Originally Posted by SnowQuilt
(Post 4993675)
I have a beautiful and smooth running Kenmore machine, I have tried to date it but with no luck. I would appriciate any help. The Serial # is 0003701 No letter. Model # is 158.18011. Thank you. It has about 40 discs, and many attachments. I love using it.
Patti Nancy |
Originally Posted by BARES
(Post 4993741)
Wondering about that for a quilt I made 30 years ago. It was well used. I still haven't decided if I will do it myself or just forget it. Keeping the Quiltdoctor in mind tho. Thanks. BTW I am celebrating my 41 anniversary tomorrow. No kids either. Couldn't have them after my accident when I was 18.
Nancy |
Originally Posted by J Miller
(Post 4991700)
Nancy and Candice,
The small spools with the large hole is actually a machine quilting thread, so I don't think there would be a problem with that. The large serger cones full of thread, would not be used for a bed sized quilt, but I am making a cover quilt, or better yet a quilted cover for one of my treadle machines. So the lesser strength would not be a problem. I wonder since this thread is so much thinner and lighter if I could run two cones at once through this machine even though it only uses one needle? Hark another experiment has just been born! Joe Nancy |
Originally Posted by Greeter Eva
(Post 4992040)
Hi, I really find this thread very interesting. I wish I had room to get more vintage machines. I have two Featherweight Singers & my Janome. I named my Featherweights after my grandmas. Anna & Maria. Lately I have been thinking of a machine I had years ago. My ML was a great seamstress , so when we were married , my DH thought I had to sew too. I don't regret that he had this idea, as I have done a lot of sewing, but quilting in later years. In 1959 my DH baught me a brand new Domestic at The T. Eaton co. As years went by companies came out with fancier machines, & guess what? I thought I had to have something newer, so got rid of the Domestic. Now I'm so sorry I did , & would just love to see one.My Domestic was green & kind of a bronze color, & I believe it had about 10 disks , for some fancy stitches.I hope someone has one & can at least show me a pic. Thankyou so much in advance. Eva
Nancy |
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
(Post 4992358)
Heehee....Okay Nancy knows from the last mini TOGA at Cathy's home that I'm a person that thinks outside the box and has the attitude of it looks good enough to me.
I'm enjoying this conversation on threads. Sometimes I just love to tests the waters or push that box, as I'm presently doing by experimenting with a thread for use in quilting. I pieced the quilt I'm presently working on with the proper thread for the piece work. But, when it came time to match the right color grey thread to the fabric, all I could find is the Gutermann Toldi-Lock which is that thin thread you are talking about. I know it may not hold up in the quilting. I hemmed and hawed over should I use this or not, and my stupidity took over and won. Yes, I could have gone with a different color thread, but that was not the look I wanted. So, now I'm using this thread in my quilting. I'm running straight lines with two lines being about an 1/4 inch apart. This is a lap size quilt that will be used during the winter holidays only. I figure worse comes to worse and the thread doesn't hold, I'll just re-quilt the dang thing. Somewhere in any quilt's life the fabric and thread wears down and breaks, and then repairs need to be done or the quilt gets shelved away. I don't want it to be next winter that I'm repairing this quilt; but if so, I'll let you all know.:) If you are quilting with serger thread every 1/4", I can't see your quilt ever falling apart! That is like double sewing everything! Even if you were doing stippling really tight - it seems to me the thin threads would be fine! My problem is that I know women who just can't throw thread away and used 'very' old thread to make a quilt top only to have the thread dissolve when the quilt was washed! What heart break! After, I found this out on my next trip to see my parents, I went through my Mother's old thread and threw it all away. I bought her all new thread colors because she just couldn't throw anything away! The problem with the very cheap thread made out of thread scraps is that it is usually so fuzzy that it just causes trouble when you try to put it through your machines. You go for it GIRL! Nancy |
Miriam, I have a question for you. I have been using my 401a, and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to use the cams? It just wants to sew with the decorative stitches that are built in? How do I disengage the machine's stitches and get it to just use the cam? Even when I use the "special" setting it still doesn't do the stitch on the cam? It is like it does not recognize the external cam?
Nancy I am leaning more and more to my Rocketeer 503a! That machine only does the cam that I insert because there is nothing else it can do! |
Nancy, did you get a manual with your machine? It shows you clearly how to do it in the manual with pictures. There are free ones available for download on the net.
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I really need help on my "new singer treadle" It is a wood cabinet It has two plain drawers on each side-no carvings.. The head is perhaps older than the cabinet. It has Sphynx decals, a drop feed, a round bobbin There is no date or any numbers on it. The manuel that was given is for a class 15. She told me she bought it at an estate sale and knows nothing about it I looked at this for over a month before I went back and bought it. Paid way to much for it I am sure. The head looks like the 1904 model with the same decals . The stand is in excellent condition There were no feet etc with it. Can anyone help? Please. Marvel
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Hi Marvel! :) Do you have a photo for us?
The serial number should be on a little brass plate right in front of the pillar. If the tension is on the faceplate of the machine, it is a model 15, if the tension faces you as you sit at the machine, then it's a different model. It sounds as tho it's a 15... I'm curious, what makes you think that the head is older than the cabinet? |
Melinda, the top is off and that's not where the problem is. It's on the front between the needle and the thread guide. My oldest daughter will be here this evening. Maybe another set of eyes will help. If not, I'll use it crooked for now.
I totally wore out a quilt handmade for me by my grandmother. Grandma was so happy someone actually used a quilt that she made me another. I am cutting up the first one and framing the pieces for my children - one for me, too, of course. It gave new meaning to the phrase from a Rod Stewart song - The first cut is the hardest. It was difficult! Snowquilt, I have a a very similar Kenmore without the opening for the cams. Mine was purchased new in late 1961. |
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