Quilts made using vintage machines!
#571
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sweet Home Alabama
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Here are two of my treadle machine quilts I"ve done this winter...love the treadle. so relaxing. I didn't machine quilt them with the treadle...too much stopping and starting. the first one is the 10/minute block, the second my box of strips. (didn't even put a dent in it) LOL
#576
There's a nostalgia about sewing with these old girls too...there's just something about it that's hard to describe...and for many of us, we're old enough that it's like going back to our roots. These machines are consistantly workhorses, and to treadle a machine has it's own kind of special feeling...many love the sounds of a treadle machine, and many feel a "connection" to ancestors as they treadle...doing something the same way our grandmothers/great grandmothers, etc. would have done it...
#577
Nancy
#578
I love the control that I have while treadling, a slower pace. The treadling sound has a way of soothing me, a calming effect. It's like the treadle is talking to me; telling me that it's okay to take life slowly.
As Charlee stated, the stitches on these vintage machines are beautiful!
As Nancy stated, the machines will out live us.
I also look at these exquisite machines as mechanical art that I can use to make quilts.
I just wish some of my machines could talk because I'm sure the stories that they have would be a delight!
As Charlee stated, the stitches on these vintage machines are beautiful!
As Nancy stated, the machines will out live us.
I also look at these exquisite machines as mechanical art that I can use to make quilts.
I just wish some of my machines could talk because I'm sure the stories that they have would be a delight!
#579
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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I don't treadle, but I love my vintage machines because generally speaking, I don't have to hand over $60-$150 per machine to be serviced every year. I have one machine I have to do that with, and one is enough!
#580
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I work on the old machines and some newer machines. The older machines are made so well - is it any wonder they have such a beautiful stitch? The skill level of the work that went into those old machines is long gone. You do not see any new machine of any kind anywhere as well made as the old sewing machines - durable. The engineering is outstanding. I am in aw of what I see in the older machines. So simple yet they sew so fine. The newer the machine the more plastic and stamped parts I see and they don't hold up. They still rely on the old engineering to actually make them sew. I guess reliable comes to mind. Repairable - and I can do it. Reasonable prices. Green as in nothing will be wasted in a couple years - they will go on and on if cared for - if not they can be recycled or parts used to make another one just as well made to live a lot longer.
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