A singer 306K. I went online this morning and ordered needles as this one takes an unusual size.
This madness started in March when we were visiting the kids in Florida. I looked on the computer at Craigslist to see if I could find a vintage sewing machine for sale. This led to a lovely lady named Debi. She had a Gimbles for sale that sounded like a good replacement for my everyday machine. I do quite a bit of quilt piecing and general sewing. Since I've been home I have used the heck out of this wonderful machine and I love, love, love it.
Debbie could see how tickled I was with the Gimbles and she offered me this:
I haven't sewn as much with this machine, YET, but I love it as well.
I sew every day. I had been using a Kenmore that I purchased new in 2002 and while it was a good machine for a while it eventually started giving me problems. I bought a shop manual online for $15 and for the past 4 or 5 years I had to periodically tear it down and work on it. The upper tension parts were buried inside the case and it was a major tear down to get to it. The plates that the thread passes through would start to rust and I had to polish them and put the whole mess back together again. I'm not an expert but it seems that the metal was inferior. Once it started to rust the process seemed to accelerate. I finally decided to go vintage.
Now I have so many machines, I've started to loose count. This blog was started to give me some focus. My husband hits all the garage sales, junk piles and salvage yards and brings more home before I can figure out the last one. Somehow I need to find homes for some machines and figure what I want to keep for myself.
I warn you, if you are looking for photos of beautiful, well organized sewing shops you need to move on before you are overcome by the crazy stuff to follow.
Have a blessed day! Sue
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