Welcome to
My Sewing Machine Collection
This is just a small portion of my collection. Hopefully, I will be able to post more pictures in the near future.
I'm just a collector so I do not sell machines, parts, accessories or otherwise assist in obtaining such for anyone else. I also do not guesstimate what machines are worth. I just don't know. :-)
Please don't e-mail me asking to buy one of my machines. They are not for sale.
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Jumpin Jehosephats!!! I had no idea my very first FW that I bought via Ebay in 2000 was a Centennial!! Singer verified her birthdate as being January 29, 1951. |
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White 221K The badge is broken as are so many of them but I have the other piece and plan to re-attach it when DH helps me decide the best way to do it. **Update** I won an auction on ebay for an original badge but have yet to put it on. No name yet for this one. I bought her from a couple who was raising money for missionary work. They had returned from working in Indonesia and the top of the case has an address in Indonesia written on it. |
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The love of my life! Abigail!!!! My adorable 222K |
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| I bought Abigail from a contact in
Canada. She's a real beauty and sews like a charm. Those are not
scratches on her paint...just flash from the camera. :-)
The only problem she has a crack in the motor housing. I'm going to buy a replacement motor for her one day. I love her anyway.
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Maybelline !!!!
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I hunted ebay for a long time looking for a cosmetically challenged Featherweight that I could have painted. I bid on one that I thought might fill the bill and when it got here, it was too good to paint so I added it to the family. Then I found Ethel (she was a diamond in the rough just waiting for her moment to shine....like the Ethel in "I Love Lucy"). Gerald Holmes in Hot Springs, AR painted her for me and now she's known as Maybelline. She's beautiful isn't she? I still think I would like to have one painted Inferno Red so I could call her Jezebel. I think I'll have to start looking again! |
| Marilyn, my lovely blond (ok, Tan)
Featherweight. I named her after Marilyn Monroe because she's blonde
and beautiful. I do use her often. I looked several years for a tan FW
before getting lucky.
The case has a couple places where I need to re-glue the lining. Other than a couple of tiny paint chips, Marilyn is in great shape...just like the real one was. |
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My other white
Featherweight. She is in almost perfect condition and so is her case.
The badge is complete. I don't use her very much as I don't want to
scratch the bed of the machine. She came with 2 boxes of attachments,
the original manual and packages of needles.
Her name is Mimi. |
| Meet Sally Susie.
This is the Featherweight I bought thinking she would be a good
candidate for re-painting. When we took her out of the box, my husband
said "no way". The decals have worn off the front of the bed of the
machine but Sally Susie is still a good looking gal! And she can sew
like a dream! Alert!!!! Sally Susie started acting like she had the consumption or some other Gosh Awful malady and DH decided to take a look at her....now she has a hole in the thing-a-ma-jiggy that the bobbin case goes into. Egads....I've got to send her to the hospital!!! |
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Singer 306K Here is an addition to the collection I found while working in Lancaster, PA in 2002. A 306K in a cabinet that I found at the local Goodwill store for only $20.50! In a hidden drawer there were several original attachments and even a set of cams in the original box.
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Looks like a pretty good deal to me. Any info you have to share about this beauty will be most appreciated. I'm also looking to add to the cams/attachments for it. If you have something to sell, please get in touch. |
| Kenmore Model 158.16012 portable. I have another Kenmore (model 158.1802) in a cabinet that is a big sister to this one. The nice people on the Vintage Kenmore list say these 2 machines are some of the best Kenmore ever had. |
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| Take a look
at my newest addition to the collection. It's a gorgeous short bed
black 301A in
a Singer Open-Side cabinet #24.
The Ismacs site doesn't show this cabinet used for a 301 but my machine
and cabinet were original to the owner. I have never seen one of
these cabinets so think this one may be hard to find....does anyone
know?
Don't you think Delilah is a good name for her?
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I have many other machines that one day I hope to display here. There are 4 other Singer 301's, a Singer 403, 5 Elna Grasshoppers, a Davis Treadle, 2 Singer 185's and assorted others. Most of my piecing is done on one of the 301's. It's a mocha in a cabinet. I bought it while working in Maryland in 2001. |
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Click here to see pics of some really bad Singers....Poor babies...DH brought them home from a salvage place. Click here to see pics of my newest FW. |
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