Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by Charlee
I'd SO be on that one if I could...that parlor cabinet is on my wish list!! I've gotten to the point where I have to be super selective....I'm out of room!! :lol:
Nancy
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by Charlee
Hey Everyone!!! We have STITCHES at our house!! Hazel, "bless her heart" :lol: , wouldn't stitch. She set her presser foot down and firmly REFUSED to make a stitch, so...the SU (spousal unit) and I tag teamed the issue...I played for a bit, got frustrated and he took over. He broke a needle (at THREE bucks a needle, he was NOT Mr. Popular at that moment) he stepped away and I went back at it...he came back to help and together, we figured out that the race was extended out as far as it would go, causing the top thread to catch and hang up between the race and the shuttle causing it to miss the loop. Backed the race up just a hair and we all of the sudden had a stitchin' machine! Not one skipped stitch, tension perfect! :)
I'm a pretty happy camper right now! :)
I'm a pretty happy camper right now! :)
Nancy
I have a table runner that is about ready for binding...just have to finish hand quilting the border on it and it'll be ready for Hazel to stitch on the binding....I figured a small task for her first job here! :lol: I have a quilt top that I just need to get the borders on...she may get that whole job of quilting it....she treadles really easy, btw...
Originally Posted by justtrish
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by Charlee
I'd SO be on that one if I could...that parlor cabinet is on my wish list!! I've gotten to the point where I have to be super selective....I'm out of room!! :lol:
Nancy
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Outer Space
Posts: 9,319
Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
Originally Posted by justtrish
I have a complaint!!
I am getting no sewing done... I go into my sewing room, look at all the pretty vintage machines and can't decide which one to use.... :)
I am getting no sewing done... I go into my sewing room, look at all the pretty vintage machines and can't decide which one to use.... :)
Question ---
I have a kenmore 158.14000 - took the head out of the cabinet to clean the machine. Thanks to the gremlins that attack at the worst time, I cannot find the set screws to hold the machine head in the cabinet. Any ideas on where to look for replacements?
Power Poster
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Alabama
Posts: 15,368
Take off the screw knob at the top left of the machine (the pressure foot tension control). Take the face plate off. Spray WD 40 lightly on the parts where the pressure foot rod is supported by the cast iron sewing machine frame. Gently heat it with a hair dryer. Stop every few minutes to try the foot lever. Once you get it heated up, spray it again with WD 40 on the rod. It should come loose.
Don't force it. Heat it and gently try rocking it up and down if it will move at all. New ones can be had but you should be able to keep yours.
Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by Blinky
I purchased a Sphynx treadle sewing machine...127? I think the presser bar is froze up on it so it won't move the presser foot up and done. My husband at the moment is trying to soak it in something at the moment. If he can't unfreeze it I was wondering how to obtain a new bar for my machine? Thanks!
Originally Posted by Candace
Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
Originally Posted by justtrish
I have a complaint!!
I am getting no sewing done... I go into my sewing room, look at all the pretty vintage machines and can't decide which one to use.... :)
I am getting no sewing done... I go into my sewing room, look at all the pretty vintage machines and can't decide which one to use.... :)
Question ---
I have a kenmore 158.14000 - took the head out of the cabinet to clean the machine. Thanks to the gremlins that attack at the worst time, I cannot find the set screws to hold the machine head in the cabinet. Any ideas on where to look for replacements?
Originally Posted by deplaylady
Originally Posted by LindaR
deplaylady...I have a question....on the 128, it comes in a cabinet, I see no motor, was it taken off? I understand putting a handle on it but there were no "portable" treadle machines were there? Was this machine electric to begin with...am I confusing?????
"#128 normally portable with hand crank, knee control or electrified"
The wooden top was missing from the box, and there is a hole the box bottom where there would have been a knee control, and the black metal part that covers the electric parts is gone, so I am thinking that someone removed the motor and the electronic stuff at one time for some reason or other. Or it was originally a hand crank and they removed that,which I think is less likely.
So, I will be putting a hand crank on this one, it's too small to slip into my treadle base and it will be fun to have it be portable.
Originally Posted by Charlee
It's nothing more than a side table if it doesn't stitch!! Don't need another side table, so it HAS to stitch! :lol:
Texas Jan :-P
My husband got the pressure bar unfrozen with the help from everyone! Thanks so much! So relieved! :thumbup:
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 15,506
Anybody in Springfield, IL
http://springfieldil.craigslist.org/hsh/2612336860.html
and it has the table too! too bad its so far from me...
and a 301 http://springfieldil.craigslist.org/atq/2628929813.html
http://springfieldil.craigslist.org/hsh/2612336860.html
and it has the table too! too bad its so far from me...
and a 301 http://springfieldil.craigslist.org/atq/2628929813.html
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Stitchnripper
Main
5
10-17-2018 09:01 AM
AngieS
Main
38
10-06-2011 10:06 PM
craftybear
Offline Events, Announcements, Discussions
34
09-09-2011 12:36 PM