Sewing Machines - a different sort of egghead.

[Snowflake]

Thanks for posting the pics 3894. Boy, modern era sewing machines may be miraculous wonders, but they sure are not nearly as swanky looking at the old (heavy as hell) machines.

Growing up, our next door neighbor had a machine with a treadle, loved that thing. I'm all thumbs, and flopped in sewing class. Think the Rachel character in The Trouble With Angels, that was me in home economics.

[lindyhop]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Growing up, our next door neighbor had a machine with a treadle, loved that thing. I'm all thumbs, and flopped in sewing class. Think the Rachel character in The Trouble With Angels, that was me in home economics.

I learned on an old treadle machine, I think it belonged to my grandmother.

I have a Montgomery Ward machine in my closet with an impossibly tangled bobbin. It's been that way for years and I never liked it enough to bother to fix it. But I'm coming across more situations where I'd like to be able to sew. My thought was to get something inexpensive...that is, until I started reading this thread.