My Vintage sewing machine collection

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.. 

After a little searching I found a Spanish Alfa machine, she had been neglected and left unloved in a damp shed for the last five years, but undterred I travelled a little over 100 miles to pick up what I believed to be a working machine.  Unfortunately this was not the case and she was completely siezed But with a lot of patience and love I managed to bring her back to life.  Now she Just needs to be test ran and Possibly adjusted But She's free and looking gorgous even on an over cast rainy day in Liverpool 

This is my first truly antique machine Its a singer 15k and it dates back by serial number to the year 1907. I purchased this from a small stone cottage in a remote hill side village in North Wales. She came in a carry case complete with an electric motor and lamp. Siting on a very good wooden base with a genuine singer instructions booklet hidden in the small wooden draw. I was led to believe that the electric motor had been retro fitted at a later part of its life and that it originally would have been a crank handle, but I cant verify this.  Its condition though is very good with everything free and moving as expected. Love the foot shape pedal.  All in all She's in unrestored condition and ready for lots of oil and love. 

This is a beauty in full unrestored state. A nice complete singer 66 machine from 1922 and in full running order, purchased from a nice old guy that used it to upholster Motor homes It will look absolutely fabulous after some hours of refurbishment..  I'm sure that the Chrome metal work will come up a treat.  The cabinet has four long drawer and the nice tilting middle draw.  The treadle mechanism works a treat.  It even came with quality singer accessories in there original tin.  In a nut shell a nice genuine quality piece of history, in some repect could even be a shame to restore it and strip off its layers of grime thats  accumulated with use. 

Brother 1960's A pretty machine in baby blue, in good condition, she has a few chips here and there but feels solid and is very presentable.  If it was a Woman she'd be the kind of girl Who makes a good Sunday roast...  I bought this on a whim from a middle aged woman who lives near Liverpool Airport here in the UK. She told me that it was just too heavy for her, even though she was twice the size of me..  To be fair it was heavier than I expected and hadn't been used for a good few years. She needed some tlc, and some minor adjustment but she was complete only lacking instructions, that was enough to start me on my journey as I love to research.  But for now some pictures.. 

 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... Somethin...