Old Singers And The Like

Right now I have Fifty-plus Singer Sewing Machines, a Singer 99 clone from Japan, a Domestic, a couple of Necchis and an Elna, hence the "And The Like"

Thursday, June 27, 2024

She Served Us Well - 403A

So here's a first. The first machine I have passed on to a new owner.

Friday, December 30, 2022

Made It! At Least I Didn't Go A Whole Calendar Year Without Posting

I received a comment from Michael asking if I had abandoned the blog, so figured I better let everyone know I'm still around. Yeah-yeah,...

Friday, June 18, 2021

Well There Goes The Neighborhood - 1967 Elna 62D

Here's the deal. Once I treadled the 221 I started looking around at other machines that "can't be treadled". There are...

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Changing The Narrative - Singer 15-91 (The Wicked Queen)

My daughter is coming up from Florida to visit. We are in clean up mode and it may be a week or so before I get another post up. I couldn...

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Yes, Turn To The Dark Side, Young Jedi - Singer 750 Touch And Sew.

Well the 635 bombed out. I did get a good pedal out of it. And I guess a spare PA motor I can work on another project with. But every day...

Friday, April 9, 2021

Heresy! Singer 635 Touch And Sew

WARNING! Rants ahead. Okay in my defense this was an experiment. I've been reading about the 'hack' to run the dual speed 1 am...

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Shhh, Super Secret "Project FWT" - Singer 221 Treadle

I've hinted around about planning this for years. Well I've finally gone and done it. It's not a machine conversion, the 221 ...

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Carving Stitches With Marge's Singer VS2 Death Machine

I have to say this is an impressive machine.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Treadle From Random Pieces For The 107W5

I don't think I've ever shown putting together one of the random parts from Norm treadles I do. So let me show you how it goes.

Monday, March 29, 2021

Of Course I Got It - 1885 Singer Improved Family

Spring is coming, that means more time up in the sewing room. I'm working on a couple of new posts. One for the 107W5 going into a tr...

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Adventures In Aerospace Engineering And Some Painting/Cleaning For The 1935 Singer 221

As you may recall when we last left the newest 221 we were in a bit of a bind with the throat plate screws.

Friday, March 19, 2021

Singer VS2 Blackside! Cause That's How We Roll In The Shire

A month or so ago one of the guys on Victorian Sweatshop pointed me to a Chandler patcher on Facebook Marketplace. I hemmed and hawed abou...

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Emergency 221 Purchase. And Happy 50th Singer day.

I've spent the last couple of days trying to get the blog entries caught up. This morning I was working on the entry for the VS2 I pic...

New Furniture For The Sewing Room, And Another Machine - Singer 15-91

For a while now the only chair I had up in the sewing room was a folding lawn chair. It was a little awkward to sew with. I occasionally ...

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Another Poor Beat Down Goodwill Machine - Singer 27-3

I was trolling through Shopgoodwill a few weeks ago and saw this guy a few times with no bids. Normally I would pass as well but eventual...

Sewing Room (Slow) Progress Update

I do continue to work on the sewing room. Progress isn't quick. Me and the boy did a bit of work last year, but kind of lost most of ...

I'm A Rocketman! (Sorry Sir Elton) - Singer 500A

After getting the 500A apart I took some pieces down to Sherwin Williams (I read the reviews of their do-it-yourself phone app and they wer...

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Yeah, I Knew It Was Going To Happen - Singer 500A

It's one of those machines everyone gets eventually. But I promise this one was an accident... Kinda.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

Tilting At Windmills with the 107W5 - Allbrands.com Adventures (?)

This is pretty much a post about how retired guys keep themselves entertained. As you may remember from the last post I'm currently ...

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Domesticating The Singer 107W5

Right now I have five industrial machines. The 29K72, the 95-40, the 96-10, the 103 and now the 107W5. The 107W5 is the only machine with...

Monday, February 8, 2021

Charity Sewing Continues

Even though we can't get together at the library, the charity sewing group continues to work on projects. These days they are kind of ...

Sunday, February 7, 2021

'Modern' Machine Annoyances - Aligning Singer 401 Needlebar

I'm working on some baby quilts for our charity sewing group - more on that in another post. Today I decided to jazz things up a bit b...

Friday, February 5, 2021

More Shiny Bits! 1931 Singer 15-91 Nickel Plated

I've always been interested in the first year 15-91s that have all the plating on them. Black Swan is even wearing the Stitch Indicato...

Friday, January 29, 2021

Great British Sewing Bee Series 6

First off props where they are do. Series six was much better than series five. Joe has reigned a little of his more cringe inducing behav...

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Happy Birthday to Me! (Part 2) - Singer 95-40

This one was more of an adventure for the wife than the 107. And even more of a double surprise.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Oops, Forgot One - Singer 101 (1923)

I didn't really forget it. Just kept putting it off. I mentioned it before when I talked about our 2018 road trips. This was one of ...

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Happy Birthday to Me! Singer 107W5

I complain about zigzagging a lot. If you've read any of my posts about the 401/403/Automatic Zigzagger you probably know this already...

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Goodwill Singer 15-88 Converted. But Does It Sew? (And Treadle 328 Gets A Cover)

Here is my quandary. Right now getting more treadle parts is kind of not a happening thing. I know where to get them. My contact has plen...

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Singer 15-90- nah, 15-88 From Shopgoodwill

This is number seven of Shopgoodwill.com purchases I've made. So far the score for packing has been: 2 excellent, 2 average, 2 oh my go...

Monday, April 13, 2020

The Sewing Room Is Coming Along

I've shot some videos up in the sewing room, usually just showing the five or six square feet that wasn't silted under with crap. T...

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Singer 101 - My x01 Straight Is Complete

So even though I was traveling most of last year doesn't mean I wasn't still picking up the odd bit of sewing machine coolness on th...

Saturday, April 11, 2020

How To Make Decent Masks Video

The hospital in my home town decided after a month of turning down donated masks that, oops, they actually needed some. My sister has start...

Friday, April 3, 2020

Great British Sewing Bee - Revisited

Oh well, it's still the only show on TV that has a bit of sewing in it I guess. Series 6 is on the way, so here's what I thought of...

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Making Masks - Like Everyone Should Be

Yep, if you can sew you should be pumping these guys out whenever you can. Even if your local hospital isn't taking donations (not v...

Thursday, March 26, 2020

It's Been One Of Those Years

Hi all. Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still around. Got distracted by life (and Warcraft) for a while. Have a few posts in the...

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Craigslist Rescue - Singer 404

Like I mentioned in the VS2 post, I'm a avid Craigslist cruiser. Yesterday while making my usual rounds I stumbled onto an ad for this ...

Thursday, March 14, 2019

New And Improved! 1892 Singer Model 27

I don't have any great expertise on checking the providence of machines. Pretty much what I do is look for sources online. I don't...

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

My First Singer VS2 - Do Spiderwebs Count As Patina?

This was kind of a weird Craiglist find. I scour it pretty regularly. A couple of days ago I saw the ad for this guy, along with a 27 I...

Sewing For Charity At The Simsbury Public Library

I finally made it to one of the charity sewing meetings at the library here. The last two I've tried to attend were snowed out. Snow...

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Feeling The Power - Singer 103 In An Industrial Treadle

The 103 is finally back together. Temporarily at least.

Monday, March 4, 2019

Twofer Cleaning Day On The Singer 15-30s

The 1904 was in pieces on the floor and I got to thinking that I might use some of the pieces of Hyman Workman's 1927 to get the '04...

Friday, March 1, 2019

Charlie Brown's Sewing Machine - 1904 Singer 15-30

I'm always on the look out for old, sad machines. I really like taking one that has been beat down hard and getting it back in shape. ...

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Singer 201 Spa Day. Using A HA-1 Numbered Needle Plate On A 201

If you watched 201 treadle conversion video you may have noticed a couple of photos where I had the 1953 201 stand in for Swan Queen for som...

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Converting Another Singer 201-2 To A Treadle Machine

I was trying to keep the naming theme of the treadle 201s the same. I couldn't very well call it "White Swan", it would be wr...

Thursday, February 21, 2019

128 Gets Its Singer Hand Crank

I have been toying with the idea of buying an original Singer hand crank for a 'portable' machine for a while. I had the modern kno...

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Prepping For NETOGA, About Six Months Early

As I mentioned in this post , I wanted to have my quilting blocks done for the NETOGA (North East Treadle-On Gathering and Academy) before p...

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Tuning Up The 401, Again. Supergirl Is Pure Fantasy

This 401 has been sitting on the shelf next to Black Swan's cabinet for a few months now, right next to the 301. I had brought it in to...

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Happy Valentine's Day. Making The Wife's Gift Using Black Swan, Wicked Queen And The 29K72 For The Win.

During one of our pilgrimages to Osgood Textile a couple of years ago we had bought some leather along with a few dozen pounds of other fabr...

Friday, February 8, 2019

The Heartbreak Of Taking The 1949 221 To Market

Well the Goodwill 221 is listed for sale. We'll see how it goes. It's my first 'for sale' machine, so I made sure to get i...

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Getting The 128 Ready For A New (Old) Hand Crank

If you read the post about the 128 my sister bought for me in exchange for the 221 I bought her, then you might remember this picture.

Monday, February 4, 2019

Cleaning Case For The 1949 221

The Goodwill 221 arrived a couple of days ago and is in pieces for cleaning. I'm going to do a post about getting it ready to sale. I ...

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Playing Sewing Machine Detective

If you have read a lot of the previous entries you know one of the things I enjoy about collecting machines is finding out their history. W...

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