Slobo and I have been swapping spaces these past few weeks. He agreed to move his woodworking to the basement to give me the garage space for my workroom. Now customers can come in via a separate entrance from the house and I can shut the inside door when I’m done working for the day! [...]

I believe in one God, Angels, and Saints. I have no doubt that God and one of his sweetest angels, teeny Great-Grandma Lula Belle Ward were watching out for me the past two weeks. The table-top loom that I’ve been building, while it wove a few inches in an hour, required alot of babysitting to [...]

We decided to get out and have some fun rummaging around antique stores yesterday. This beautiful gem caught my eye. She was labeled simply “Primitive Spinning Wheel” with a price tag of 125.00. With money tight, I ran my hand around it, and continued window shopping. Unbeknownst to me, Slobo haggled for a much lower [...]

I’ve spent the better part of two weeks cleaning up my workroom to begin a new venture: Sage Row – Alterations / Custom Sewing Service (home based for now). Maybe I should’ve listened to that bell in my head, when at 16 I tried to hand sew a man’s tailored jacket. Now to stop chasing [...]

I bought (with the help of MOM!) a Singer 291U from Atlantic Sewing last week. Yesterday, we picked her up!!! I set her up and tested her and fell in love with her! I’ve now named her Harriet and the Consew 225 – Ozzie! They make such a cute couple! Here’s Harriet’s table, motor pic. [...]

Late Thursday afternoon, I ordered some thread, needles, and oil from Atlanta Thread Supply. Friday morning at 10 A.M., the order was sitting on our porch! Aren’t they amazing? Everytime I’ve ordered from them, they’ve been that fast! After commenting on Westchester Sewing, tho, I felt the need to brag on Atlanta Thread as well! [...]

Beauty’s Glam-shots: And here she is being sewn off for the first time after 3 months of work! A Legend… Reborn.Uploaded by slobokan Still hard to believe it only cost 140.00 for table, machine, repairs and everything! That ole’ keeper up there sure is good to me! This payday, I’ll order her some needles and [...]

I received my order from Westchester Sewing Machine Co. this morning! Yippee! They were really fast. I received the order within 3 days of ordering. They will definitely go on my recommended sites list! I’ll be able to get the Consew in working order today – I hope! The belt pulley opening will need to [...]

I’m not sure this is what a friend on the necchi list is looking for, but here are pics of the accessory box (put together from two different machines) Top Tray: The top tray cams are: Buttonhole Cams x 2 III (loop-de-loop design sort of heart shaped at the loops), IV (zigzag), V (scallop design), [...]

Here is the table with the main cutouts completed. I still will need to cut holes for the hinge pins, thread stand, and light mount when I receive them, but this is how the main cutouts turned out. The template worked. It was a tight fit on the back edge, so I still needed to [...]

A really nice person on the wefixit Yahoo group, Bob Cavenagh, has been incredibly helpful in obtaining information to put together a tabletop / stand configuration for the Consew 225. Among several vendors he recommended for ideas, Westchester Sewing Machine Co., out of New York, had most of the parts that I needed. So today [...]

Okay, here are the long awaited pics of my newly – rehabbed – recycled – not quite remodeled Consew 225 and the table that came with it! Motor Specs: I was pleased to discover today that the ole’ rusty motor just purrs along like a kitten. DH took the plunge and plugged her in – [...]

After a suggestion from Nicolle on the Yahoo group necchisewingmachineclub, my Italian Friend is now named Smokey. What about “Smokey?” One of my favorite speakers says that’s what all the Drill Sergeants in the Army are nick-named when you come in for Basic Training. Nicolle B. ** Update: 06/04/08 – Okay, after some more suggestions, [...]

Yeah, Cornerstone Sew and Vac finally called back yesterday and said my Consew 225 is ready for pickup! You may remember I took her to them on April 2nd. After adjusting the timing, it kept slipping just a bit out of alignment. The repairman called last week and said it was doing the same thing [...]

I’ve added the Consew 225 Manuals to the manuals button above or I’ve taken down my manuals page but you can access the Consew manuals from these links: Singer 111 Manual (same machine)Parts manual for the Consew 225/Singer 111here. Here is the Instructional Manual for Consew 225. Changing stitch lengths on page 5. – Powered [...]

Maybe I’m feeling nostalgic because our town has recently undergone a population explosion, from 2k to over 4k in 5 years, but I thought it would be fun to give a little history of the building row where my lovely Consew came from. The nearest town to us, where this street is located, was formed [...]

Driving down our tiny main street one day during the winter, we discovered workmen cleaning out one of my favorite dilapidated buildings in our town. Having researched our town when we moved here years ago, I learned that the set of buildings, originally containing the first movie theater, had since been occupied by a hardware [...]

While looking online, for the picture of the sweater pattern I’m knitting from an older issue of Creative Knitting magazine, I ran into another knitster’s blog, Creative Swoon. I love that name! Scrolling the older posts, a picture of typeface caught my eye….. and the video recommended, caught my heart. The caption was simply Letterpress [...]

I added a new page containing images of my Singer 15ch sewing machine manual. In case anyone else is looking for it – check out the side bar on the right. Happy Treadling! Technorati Tags: Singer15, manual, treadle sewing machine

My Singer 5127, which held so many memories, has donated her organs (no not the needles, just the motor) so that my new 1975 Repro treadle singer that Mom gave me can live an electric life. Luckily, I discovered that this machine has a motor mount under the handwheel. After pricing the parts to electrify [...]