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W6KMEWhat a difference a single digit can make, incremented by one. In back a Singer 211, in front a Singer 221. Both mid-1950s.
@chrysalis
Even more classic! Also a work of art.
@evergreensewing
A classic! 🥰
Several of us were talking about Singer Featherweights a week or two ago, and I lamented that I'd likely never had one unless one popped for free in need of repairs, since they've become rather precious.
Guess what popped up for free on Next Door, needing a new electrical cable? (No, I don't use NextDoor; a friend referred me to the listing)
NúriaLast year I discovered the existence of “rotary buttonholers”, which attach to your straight-stitch-only antique sewing machine and produce… well, buttonholes!
I got myself one. Finally figured it out and used it last week.
Let me tell you. I want to put buttonholes on everything now.
Evergreen SewingThis, friends, is why you should always service those thrift/charity shop machines you pick up.
Yes, they're super machines that'll last. But sometimes? Their gear boxes hide a big, nasty, sticky blob of antique grease that's gonna make your life hell some day.
Maintenance matters.
Sensible CroneFYI my favorite contemporary sewing machine, the Heavy Duty Singer 8832, has shown up at Costco, in gorgeous black rather than battleship gray, for a good price. 180 or some such. If you want a machine, I recommend. It goes markedly faster than other domestic machines, plus all the necessary functions, and no computery anything. A terrific tank of a machine. #sewing #sewingmachine
https://www.costco.com/p/-/singer-heavy-duty-8832-sewing-machine-black/4000361281
Aleksandra ANISA IanchenkoSome backstage photos of my new film project. Here, I compare a tram with a sewing machine - both are moving along lines/rails/seams and both are often operated by women.
The premiere is in November.
Camerawork: Carlos E. Lesmes
Soundwork: Vincent Roy.
Special thanks:
Pent Paalberg and Tallinna Linnatransport
Eva Tarn, Tuuliki Peil and The New life studio.
#tram #tallinn #filmmaking #sewingmachine #camerawork #backstage
The premiere is in November.
Camerawork: Carlos E. Lesmes
Soundwork: Vincent Roy.
Special thanks:
Pent Paalberg and Tallinna Linnatransport
Eva Tarn, Tuuliki Peil and The New life studio.
#tram #tallinn #filmmaking #sewingmachine #camerawork #backstage
Tomorrow's our next open dropoff time at Sewcial Studies. Come by any time between noon and 2PM and drop off your sewing machine for a much deserved spa day.
Afterward, check out all the great new things (including Sewcial Studies) popping up in Milwaukie!
https://evergreensewing.com/2026/02/27/dropoff-at-sewcial-studies-tomorrow/
Finally fixed the top thread tension problem. It was not the top thread, nor the tension discs, nor the needle, nor the threading, and neither was accumulated lint in the feed dogs area.
It was the tiniest piece of broken thread trapped between the bobbin case spring and the rest of the bobbin case. Exactly the thing that regulates the bobbin tension.
Gahhh.
Now let’s sew.
(Isn’t bobbin a cute sounding word? Bobbin. There, good day.)