The Sewing Place
Machine Talk => Vintage Machines => Topic started by: Snowgoose on March 05, 2017, 10:54:19 AM
-
I'm so happy! I have to make curtains and I have found some lovely fabric from the Textile Centre, and a couple of nice tutorials on you tube, but was dreading the sewing! By accident, I found that Singer made a blind hem attachment for my lovely :vintage: 201 and after a lot of thinking whether I could justify buying it, I did :). Fifteen pounds including p&p and I love it. It's so solid and just glides along - I've only tried it on some scraps - still too nervous to :snip: into the curtain fabric!
I can't add any more machines to the sewing family, but I can see that seeking out the old attachments is my new mission - they truly are magic :D
-
I've been fortunate in finding quite a lot of feet in the attachment box on the machines I've adopted. I'm still working through them all, having to google most of them, and will at sometime produce samples of fabric. Must admit some do look like some horrendous surgical instruments 0_0
If you can find the buttonhole attachment for you machine, they make the most wonderful buttonholes.
-
Helen Howes is a great source of old machine parts and lots of lovely attachments! Just google her, she has a workshop at Raveningham (Norfolk/Suffolk border) and can be found also under Raindrop Kites.