Does anyone remember the song, "A sewing machine, a sewing machine, a girl's best friend?"
It is pretty old, from a 1949 movie. I never knew all the words, just the first couple of lines and I sing it every time I get out one of my machines.
I have been obsessed with sewing machines since I was a young girl. I have always had one or two. Now in my dotage I indulge in my passion a bit more.
In the past couple of weeks I have serviced and cleaned all of my machines. I ordered new belts for two of them.
My treadle machine I noticed has never sat right, it dipped when it was set up and sometimes it would catch lifting the lid to raise it into the working position. I realised that the back of the cabinet was not straight when I re arranged my sewing room. This machine and cabinet are pretty old, over 100 years and it was in bad shape when I rescued and bought it. I worked on the machine and spruced up the cabinet but I never worked on how it didn't sit right until this past week.
Upon close inspection I could see that the joints had come apart in the back of the cabinet. I cleaned them up and glued them then put some metal brackets on the bottom to hold the joints together.
Now it raises up and down with no problems and it sits nice and flat. No sagging!
You can see how it was sagging before in this picture from a previous post.I am really so happy that I fixed this. I blogged about the original restoring of this machine in 2017 if anyone is interested in seeing the original condition of it. This is the first post and there are posts throughout the process of the restoration.
https://ilikeknittingandsewing.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-bit-of-excitement-yesterday-and-today.html
Now to my my next project:-
I saw this sad looking baby in our local Facebook Marketplace.
As you can see she is in sad shape. They had it advertised for $50. I offered $20 and they countered with $25. I accepted their counter. Big time negotiater me!
It doesn't have a power cord and the wheel doesn't turn so I have no idea if I can get it running but I will jolly well try. Power cords are available for it. If the motor doesn't work after I get the cord I will buy a conversion handle for it and make it a hand crank machine. This machine is approx 70 years old.
Will update as progress is made. We have been pretty busy these past few weeks as it has cooled down and we are catching up with outside work so aside from washing off the cobwebs and grime I haven't done any more to it yet.
