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
Friday, December 30, 2022
Made It! At Least I Didn't Go A Whole Calendar Year Without Posting
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 two machine in particular I've been looking to show that anything can be treadled. The Singer 500A and the other was The Elna Supermatic (the green one). I've had the repainted 500A sitting on the side for a bit. I haven't done it yet because I'm planning on that machine being my zigzagger at Philmont over the summer. So a Supermatic would be first. I wiffed on the green, but came up with this off goodwill instead.
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't stand the idea of people landing on the blog randomly and seeing Touch and Sews at the top so I'll just leave this here.
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 is a new hope, right? I bought this off Shopgoodwill and it showed up today.
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 amp, Golden Touch and Sew motors in 301/4xx/5xx machines and thought I would try it. So I found this as a local pickup on Ebay.
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 still has all its super-cute little parts attached. It's more of an adaptation to of a treadle to drive a 221.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
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 treadle and one for Marge's Death Machine Black Side VS2. While messing about with those I saw this guy on Shopgoodwill.
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
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 picked up a couple weeks back. When I'm at the computer I pop over and check Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist and Shopgoodwill just incase any 'must haves' show up. In this case it was this guy popping up on Facebook for... $75!! What the frack!?
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 checked Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for a replacement. Finally this sorely misused guy showed up nearby for $35.
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 eventually I checked the serial number they had a picture of. Turns out it's an 1897 machine.
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 the year to the plague and building out some more gardens. This winter has been looking at heating solutions. I had finally settled on a wood stove, then found out that wood stoves aren't allowed in buildings in which gasoline powered vehicles/equipment are stored. Bummer. Since I'm limited to 40 total amps of electrical it makes it hard to stick with electric heaters permanently. So still looking. But the we did get the walls nearly complete. So here's the current layout.
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 weren't good). They guys were actually excited to try and mix some paint for something other than interior walls (one of them is a sewing machine fan as well). They spent almost an hour experimenting and came up with these.
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 in the process of converting the 3.9 amp Singer motor into something I can use to make the 107W5 a sorta-portable machine. And here we sit.
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 without propulsion. The 103 is in the industrial treadle, the rest have clutch motors assigned to them. So that needs to be fixed.
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 social distanced drop-off-completed/pickup-supplies-for-next-round in the library parking lot affairs. The past few go arounds we have been doing baby quilts for local newborns.
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 by putting a cool zigzag stitch one of of them. I pulled out the not-so-trusty 401 and while setting it up noticed this:
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 Indicator Plate off of a '31. So there was palpable excitement in the house when this little, umm.... beauty(?) showed up on Shopgoodwill.
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 behavior that was a massive distraction for me with series five, becoming an overly annoying clown (see photo) less often. He's still not in the same league as Claudia Winkleman, but at least he is less horrific.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
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 two picked up from Miriam, a friend from Victorian Sweatshop, when we passed through Indiana.
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. Now just imagine how much my wife has heard it. I'm kind of thinking that's why for my birthday this year she went down to Norm and asked for a zigzag machine that would shut me up. And here it is. A 1940 allotted Singer 107W5
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Goodwill Singer 15-88 Converted. But Does It Sew? (And Treadle 328 Gets A Cover)
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Singer 15-90- nah, 15-88 From Shopgoodwill
Monday, April 13, 2020
The Sewing Room Is Coming Along
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Singer 101 - My x01 Straight Is Complete
Saturday, April 11, 2020
How To Make Decent Masks Video
With so many people giving 'tips' on how to make them there is a lot of bad recommendations floating around. So I thought I would add my own, but hopefully not as bad.
Friday, April 3, 2020
Great British Sewing Bee - Revisited
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 very bright) you can always mail them to someplace like:
Thursday, March 26, 2020
It's Been One Of Those Years
As like most everyone else we are sitting tight and not getting out much at all, but all here are good.
Do all you need to stay healthy.