In Stitches Sewing

New article on some Necchi history few know of…

Go Ask Alice.

Upgrading your old incandescent bulb to an l.e.d. is one of the best things you can do, they use far less power, are brighter, and don’t get hot.

We try to stock bulbs for nearly every type of vintage machine, and can order specialty bulbs as well.

Charles Harrison Passes Away – New York Times

We sell and service more 301 and 221 machines than all others combined and thought we should finally add one to the permanent collection.

She is a nice 2 tone short bed, (they never made a long bed version), sews out beautifully and you have to look close to see her scuffs and marks.

I was making up a bunch of thread stands this morning and if there is a machine that can benefit, it is the blazing fast 301 which can sew in excess of 1500 stitches a minute.

If I take any quilting classes I will be taking this machine with me…

A scaled down version of the Supermatic, lighter and more portable with all the same features.

This is an extremely rare accessory, and even rarer as a blackside version. The box is a little rough but considering it is over 80 years old, not that bad considering.

fagoter-manual – pdf

Here is an excellent video on how the fagoter can be used…

We stock heat fusible belt for making hard to get belts… like the ones on the Elna Grasshopper.

We have quite a stockpile of donor machines, and will be parting them out and listing bits and pieces over the coming weeks.

Used Parts

Today was my day off but that did not stop me from going for a drive in the snow to go and pick up a little gem of a Bernina…

After that I fired up the snow-blower since we just got a 12 inch dump of snow, cleared our place as well as 4 more neighbours walkways as some of these folks are elderly, and the snow crews that do this work, are gonna be days behind.

And between stints walking behind the (vintage) snowblower, I made some fresh butter… and there is nothing like fresh buttermilk either.