Saturday, November 24, 2018

Farewell To Another 40-some Sewing Machines

Today was a big day. Forty-plus sewing machines left the building. The new owners had to make two trips to get them all hauled off in their minivan.

I've been at this hobby for around 12 years. It's time though to move on from sewing machine collecting to concentrating on getting my two cars fixed up.

I still have several nice sewing machines that I plan on keeping longer term. Below are photos of most of them.

Hand Crank with no name (German I believe, might be a Gritzner):

Pfaff 130 with the 50010 "coffee grinder" decorative stitch attachment:

Mint Green Singer 319W with the cool "piano key" stitch pattern selectors:

Singer 221 Featherweight, naturally:

Singer 301 (the first "slant-needle" Singer model):

Singer 401A (every collection should have one of these, with its gazillion built-in stitch patterns):

Singer 500:

Singer 15-125, which is basically an updated 15-91 that's mint green instead of your basic black:

Emdeko (this was one of my first "nice" imports):

New Home 270 (what's not to like?):

Pink no-name machine (just couldn't bring myself to part with a pink sewing machine):

Singer industrial 111W155 needle-feed:

Singer 66-1 Treadle from 1908 needing a little work:

A few other less notable machines gets the count up to around 20, which probably sounds like quite a few to most folks, but to me it's just about right. For now.

1 comment:

ceblakeney said...

Congrats! I'm at about 100 and I'm done. Except for the Bernina 1130 I bought a few weeks ago. Swore I would NEVER get a computerized machine but curiosity got the best of me. I would like to get down to a couple dozen, because then I can maintain them and switch them out from time to time. The plan was to get each up to speed one at a time and get them out the door one at a time, but your 'many out the door at one time' method is looking awfully attractive.

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