Shuttle Singers

Reply Subscribe

Page 2 of 2

Thread Tools

06-08-2012, 08:57 AM

#11

kitsykeel

Super Member

Join Date: Sep 2010

Location: Salisbury, North Carolina

Posts: 1,046

Quote:

Originally Posted by majormom

This is areal memory booster! I learned to sew on a shuttle bobbin machine with a treadle! You wound the thread on a long bar like thingy and put that into the silver shuttle, threaded the thread through the shuttle, put it in the machine and away you went. I would just love to have one in my home today, alas not enough room or money to buy one!!! Thanks for the memory :-)

\
Majormom,

If you want a shuttle machine and don't have room for a cabinet, try to find a Kenmore 159.262. It is small and has the shuttle. I found mine at a thrift store for $15.00 and I just love it. The base of the machine is only 12 inches long and 6.5 inches wide. Made in Japan. All steel construction. A keeper.

06-09-2012, 02:39 PM

#12

katykwilt

Senior Member

Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Southeast Michigan

Posts: 339

I don't have a shuttle, but have found those small discs you use to move things on carpet, really work well under all the scratchy cabinets -- because I have this thing about moving things around and finding what I've stuffed under them occasionally I use a lot of them. Since my sweetie had one of the bays in his garage (had 3) converted into a nice room for me to sew in, I requested hardwood floors and don't want them scratched. Those moving pads have a nice thick foam pad on them and ought to help.