Why sewing machines

So you get to a certainly age and think what you've accomplished.

I've got a beautiful wife, two crazy cockerpoos two children and three grand children.

I've spent my whole time working got lots of different skills set badges plumbing plastering joinery etc etc....

But I'm the arty type Inside and deep down Inside feel creative. Like there is a whole bunch of People inside me trying to escape. I love photography and pretty things do it for me.

Visualy I love slim sleek Lines and understated colour and yes you've probably guessed it I'm pretty shallow.

But still there is something missing.

My wife thinks I have OCD but I'm too untidy for that.

My mind is constantly in over drive zooming along at a million MPH

I need a little something...

Just a small hobby to help my mind slow and to give me some more focus so I can for get about all the projects I have going on in my life at the moment.

Enter Sewing..... Something I thought I'd never do... Something I thought would be my Wife's domain... I mean I'm happiest, pig in poo covered in oil underneath my trusty 1997 Mercedes right?

Wrong.. I'm Just as happy researching the fascinating history of Sewing and the sewing machine.

Now there are very many styles and they are all the same?... well not quite all the same...

Now this is where a shallow but friendly 55 year old electrician with Possibly a smidge of OCD gets his hands on a 1960s Vintage sewing machine..

Hooked, embroiled, stitched in to the fascinating insides of what makes these pretty little things tick.

So this small blog covers my vintage machines, how I came to get them and from where.

It covers what I,'ve found out about each of them, the history of the People Who made them etc...

But the one thing this has in common is

"I only bought them because they are pretty".

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95k43 Stripdown

Tonight I decided to strip down the 1942 Singer 95k43Industrial machine. The Woman that I had bought it off had paid a retired sewing machine engineer to service this machine as it was intended to be a present for her Sister. Unfortunately, her Sister didnt like the cabinet it was housed in and refused the gift. I can understand why... Upon close inspection it was clear that the engineer had changed the hook, bobin case and oiled the machine. It is lovely and free and sews as would be expected. I decided to give it more of a deep clean and remove as much crud as possible. Too be fair it wasn't too bad. Now the 95k43 is meant to be a light industrial machine and on the rear side is a knee lift facility that clearly doesn't work in the cabinet. Now this was a clue because the paint was clearly worn underneath where it had been repeatedly used with a knee lift. Also the c...

finally got my singer 95k on the go

So the 1942 WW2 Singer 95k that i bought in a treadle cabinet has now been cut into a table and given a small electric motor. The table was something I got locally for just a few pounds and the old treadle table was cut up and sacrificed to the woodburner. anyway after a small strip down and rebuild Shes up and running. Very soon she will be Transporter in my trailer 2000 miles to her new resting place in Bulgaria. She has a lot of work ahead of her mainly heavy canvas. After 80 years you think she'd have earned a rest... Very hard getting hold of needle for her but I've now got hold of a good mixture as I'm afraid they wont be produced anymore..

Not another industrial sewing machine

Ok So I like to research, I mean quite a bit... I Just purchased this fully serviced and working Singer 95K43 She was built in scotland in 1942 so at the moment she's 79years old Or should I say young. Apparantly she's an industrial machine that was designed for garment making. These machines where sometimes used in the home by seamstresses as well as in factories. This one cane in a home cabinet, with a quality clutch Motor.. Not so sure what I'm going to do with her. I think she would be better suited to a table rather than a treadle as there is the capability to lift the presser foot by means of a foot pedal then. Anyway very pleased, fully functional antique industrial singer

My Vintage sewing machine collection

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