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The Bluebird of Happiness
This is one of my much-loved vintage Singer sewing machines. She is called the Bluebird of Happiness, and she’s painted pale Sky Blue with dark blue accents. She is a 359K straight stitch machine,...
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Sweet little Vibra sewing machine
My latest project has been to clean and restore this sweet little Vibra handcrank machine to good running order. She really is small — her base is 12 inches long, 6.5 inches wide, and 1.5 inches tall...
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Today’s Sewing Machine
Today I’ve been sewing on “Lavinia,” my Singer 15K treadle machine from 1907. First I cleaned her and oiled her, and then we made some Maple Leaf blocks. She sews such a lovely stitch! I’ve been...
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Updated Singer Serial Number Information
ISMACS (International Sewing Machine Collectors’ Society) has recently made the vintage Singer serial numbers available on their website. At the Singer Sewing Company website, you can get a certificate...
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New Year’s Girl
I’ve been having fun with my new sewing machine that we brought home yesterday. It’s a Singer Model 15K80 from 1937. When she’s put away, she looks like this: I cleaned and oiled the machine itself...
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Ruby Steps Out
My latest restoration project is “Ruby,” a Singer 99K model from 1927, serial number Y4432093. I was so impatient to start working on her that I forgot to take any “Before” photos. So here she is,...
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Ruby and the UFO
Lately I’ve been sewing only in my sewing room on my two favourite electric machines — Marie, the Janome 6500P, and Peggy, the Singer 201K from 1951. Today however, my 10-year-old asked me if I would...
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Bletchley Park and a sewing machine
On a recent journey down south in England, we visited Bletchley Park National Codes Centre, famous for World War II codebreakers and the mathematical genius Alan Turing and his colleagues. The 2001...
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Esmeralda Comes Home
This is Esmeralda. She is a beautiful green Singer 327K, serial number ET670062, with a registration date of July 31, 1962. She has just come home from the sewing machine hospital, where she was...
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Brother Window-Matic Instruction Manual
Many, many people have asked me if I could help them find the instruction manual for the Brother Window-Matic sewing machine. Well, today I am very pleased to say — I’ve got it! My original copy of the...
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