Keeping your machines sewing
My Singer 66K has back-clamping foot fitting and I don't want to convert it to low shank. 🧐 Whaaaat? Why? Ah, that is a topic for another post. 🤬 Yeah, I heard you. 🤭 This 1906 Singer 66K was made within the first half a year of production of this model in Scotland, and it… Continue reading Hopping with a back-clamping Singer 66K
No, it isn't top quality - that's no secret. 😁 Singer domestic sewing machine needles of type 15x1 (a.k.a. HAx1 or 130/705H) are actually different from needles of the same type made by other manufacturers, both needles of top quality and needles of "great value". Here they are - a Singer needle and a different… Continue reading The secret of Singer needles
It's quite impossible not only because it's an intricate pattern, but also because it's Chinese brocade - the world's most slinky and stubborn fabric. Plus, it's a mitred corner. And yet, here it is: And here is another one, on the grain: Can you see how it's done? Zig-zag. What? 😲 Yes, humble zig-zag. Put… Continue reading Impossible pattern matching
This is the oldest machine in my collection - an 1885 Wertheim TS, serial number S6331276. It is a low arm model with a fiddle base. 🤩 This is after cleaning and varnishing, but before rust removal. I found it on eBay in a rather sorry state looking like this (seller's photo): A bit dusty,… Continue reading The oldest one yet
Sew-Tric motors are found on many sewing machines sold in Britain in 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. They are good quality conventional brushed electrical motors without electronic components, so they are heavy and they don't quit working to this day. But after some 70 years, they often could use a clean or perhaps a change of… Continue reading Wiring Sew-Tric
The correct answer to the quiz is 22 or 23 machines. And no, not all of them are actually sewing! The closest answer was by Kerry - 24 machines. And here they are: 1 - Brothers Nothmann TS. 2 - Stoewer Serata VS2. 3 - Clemens Müller Veritas VS2. 4 - Singer 66K. 5 -… Continue reading Quiz results and more sewing machines
Couching is an embroidery technique of sewing a cord onto canvas with a fine thread so that the cord appears to simply lie on the fabric, frozen in time. In sewing machine parlance it is often called "cording", and there's a cording foot to guide the cord while zig-zagging over it. But this is really… Continue reading Couching wool with a sewing machine
