#Singer Sewing Machine

[estatesalefinds]

Longview, WA

[kieraoonadiy]

Another teardown video! This time, this machine is going to a new owner! The new recipient of this well loved machine will be @theshitpostcalligrapher for their future sewing shenanigans!

Watch as I go through parts, try to locate where a mystery part goes, and strugglebus through taking apart a Singer Esteem II, and putting it all back together, while adjusting the needle arm for smoother stitches!

[ahedderick]

Singer Sewing

I bravely went to Youtube and found a video about antique Singer sewing machine maintenance. I'm just. Scared to watch it. I've done a LOT of hands-on tasks in my life, but mechanical stuff has always seemed almost mystically impossible to me. Hmm.

The Singer in the far back of the first photo I was able to sell; it is a cobbler's/leatherworker's machine. I actually saw it in its new home at a friend's studio recently, and it gave me a Moment. The other two machines are regular sewing machines with treadles, and I would like to restore one of them to working order. Not sure I'm capable of doing so, but. It's a goal.

[themummersfolly]

Holy shit

Fasted $250 bucks that ever hit that thrift shops register.

[lemongrad]

Quilt is a wedding gift for a friend, sewing machine is a Singer VS2 from 1888

[feral-violet]

[my-current-stars]

Hey all sewing machine users, especially those knowledgeable about singer and/or vintage machines! I need your help!

I recently thrifted this beauty and was thrilled to find that it still worked after a good cleaning! However, I still have a lot of unanswered questions about it that will help me be able to use it.

1. Which sewing machine is this? I think it's from the 1970s, but I find it hard to locate information on this fellow.

2. What needle(s) does it need and where would you get them? It came without a needle, and I try not to buy from the big corporations I really despise if I can help it (Amazon, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, etc.).

3. What kind of thread would you use and how would you attach it? I already have stuff i use to hand sew, but I'm not sure if it's adequate.

4. In general, where would I go to learn how to use this? It doesn't have to be the exact model, but I'm new to sewing machines and need a guide.

Any other potentially useful information would be appreciated: even just a database that might help me find more information! My searches weren't very helpful, so I figured you all would know more. Thanks! :3

[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

So awhile back, I posted this thing:

Uh, it turns out this sewing machine is 124 years old, and originally a hand crank model 28-9. I have to clean and replace a bunch of stuff, but very surprising to have such an inheritance that works perfectly fine even in a dirty state-

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I know most of you are here for disability and chronic illness stuff and not fibre arts but i have a huge update on my vintage sewing machine i bought a couple months back!

I haven't had a chance yet to get it serviced properly but i've been trying to ID the thing. There's a very visible serial number but i haven't been able to match it to any databases and couldn't find a single image of a machine that looks like mine. In low lighting from a very specific angle my mom today was able to see that it wasn't a 0 but a C! It finally makes sense and fits the singer sewing machine serial number system. With that i was able to find out where it's from! C means it was made in a Factory in Germany (finding it makes sense seeing as i live in germany) and none of the singer sewing archives have any serial numbers and there's only a handful of known models that were created there, and even those have barely any information. Because in the 1940s the russian army stripped all of it. It existed under a different name in the german democratic republic.

I can't find pictures of machines that look like mine because there's barely any record of any at all. I know it was made in between 1904 and 1940 and where it was made but there just isn't a lot more information to be found. The archives can only tell anything at all because of the letter saying where it was made. They don't have records of serial numbers from that place. I bought it for 39€

[kvroii-arts]

And here is my 1950s Singer sewing machine. This is also an old photo, but she was missing her bobbin, although I think she had nearly everything else. Like the others in my collection, she is a hand crank sewing machine.

[loveandasandwich]

✨I’m working late, ‘cause I’m a singer✨

This song has been an earwig in my brain for the past couple weeks, and this idea was too silly not to doodle up.

Currently up on my Threadless as apparel and accessories!

[wikipediapictures]

Dark Island

“Dark Island, a prominent feature of the St. Lawrence Seaway, is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands region, near Chippewa Bay. Dark Island Castle was recently renamed ‘Singer Castle’, because it was built for Frederick Gilbert Bourne, president of the Singer Manufacturing Company , producer of the Singer Sewing Machine.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[kieraoonadiy]

Do you, or someone you know have a sewing machine, with no idea how to use it or where to start? Look no further!

This guide will help you with most domestic electric modern sewing machines, that are "mechanical"

I go through parts, threading, bobbin and needle info, to help you get started!

[saoirsegraves]

Yarn the colour of crow feathers ... it's gonna have billowy sleeves.

https://saoirsegraves.com/

[ub-sessed]

This came in to work today:

My boss guessed '50s or '60s based on the sewing machine (it has a weird flat bobbin and to wind the bobbin you put it in the bobbin compartment -- there's no bobbin case -- and then the needle winds the thread around the bobbin?) but based on the cover illustration I'm guessing very late '60s, possibly even early '70s.

Thoughts?

[wandaluvstacos]

I am so happy right now. That first line of stitches is literally the first thing I ever sewed with this machine, and they were just... perfect. Immediately. No adjusting of tension, timing, nothing. That's after I took the needle assembly out to clean and put it back in. Not sure if I'm lucky or if it's just hard to fuck up the timing on these machines.

Anyway, I'm so happy she RUNS cuz I rewired her ENTIRELY because all of her wiring was rotted through. I had no guarantee that I did it right until I could put it all together and plug it in. And everything works!!!! :D This is a 96-year-old machine that according to the woman I bought it off of Facebook Marketplace from for $40 said she didn't think it had been used in 30 years.

And it showed, of course, though she was in pretty good shape overall. I had to do a lot of cleaning of old varnish, but she didn't have much rust.

Before:

After:

She will do 30 STITCHES PER INCH, which if you're wondering what that looks like, it's the stitches on the right:

Even my 50s/60s era machines don't stitch that tiny.

Her motor sounds good too, not loud or laggy. Amazing that a 96-year-old motor can run so well. But that's how they made shit back then.

Anyway, next plan of action: redo the cabinet. I want to take off the veneer on the top of it and put new veneer on. This thing was not taken good care over the course of its life, which is sad, cuz this machine would have cost a shit ton of money in 1928.

I'll probably sand down the rest and restain it. And maybe do a French polish on both machine and cabinet, to protect them for another 100 years. :3