Sewing Machine Revivals: Part 1
Ok! I have something so very exciting to share with y'all! I recently bought my very first vintage sewing machine!
I first started looking into getting a Singer Featherweight 221 a couple months ago. I reached out to Michelle (owner of Urban Spools) and she told me that her fabulous husband had recently started buying these fantastic machines to fix up and sell. {Doesn't that sound like a cool hobby? I tried to get Mr. Relish interested in a hobby like that and he didn't bite, but someone else did!}
I told her to put me on the list for the next one and she immediately responded that one was on the way and once her husband cleaned her up, she was ALL mine! I picked her up last week and isn't she just adorable? I still need to look up her birthdate.
(fabric is Japanese from Disneyworld's Epcot)
When I picked her up, I had a little secret that I didn't tell Michelle about and that was I was naughty and bought another vintage sewing machine on Ebay. Not a Featherweight, but a....
...to be continued tomorrow!
Melissa
I first started looking into getting a Singer Featherweight 221 a couple months ago. I reached out to Michelle (owner of Urban Spools) and she told me that her fabulous husband had recently started buying these fantastic machines to fix up and sell. {Doesn't that sound like a cool hobby? I tried to get Mr. Relish interested in a hobby like that and he didn't bite, but someone else did!}
I told her to put me on the list for the next one and she immediately responded that one was on the way and once her husband cleaned her up, she was ALL mine! I picked her up last week and isn't she just adorable? I still need to look up her birthdate.
(fabric is Japanese from Disneyworld's Epcot)
When I picked her up, I had a little secret that I didn't tell Michelle about and that was I was naughty and bought another vintage sewing machine on Ebay. Not a Featherweight, but a....
...to be continued tomorrow!
Melissa
Beautiful machine! I can't wait to read your blog tomorrow to find out the latest addition to your growing collection! ;) -Brittany
ReplyDeletehaving never seen a machine like this this is the second one in under a week, a lady had one at our modern quilters group last saturday, she picked it up on ebay and is delighted with it, plans to make and quilt her latest quilt on it.
ReplyDeleteGreat find! :-)
ReplyDeleteI learned to sew on a Singer 401 and then my Nanna gave me her featherweight when I was a teenager. I have sewn net curtains to leather skirts on it. Great machine. I now also own a Singer 431 it comes with cams and does zigzag stiches.
ReplyDeleteBarb@Witsend
It is beautiful. These machines are not just a mere reflection of the history or the evolution of domestic innovations, they take us back to a simpler time. Yee Kok Siong
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