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sakon76 ([personal profile] sakon76) wrote2011-08-07 12:19 am
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Feet, Down Below Its Nee(dle)s

So in something of a lightbulb moment, I remembered that I had some inherited sewing machine feet in the deep drawer of my sewing desk, and decided to see what they were.

Aside from the ones I bought and use myself for Lilo, I found five boxes of feet.

Now, two of them are for Touch and Sews (and several miscellaneous feet got repatriated to those boxes) and are thus of no Earthly use to me as my grandmother's T&S is broken and merely residing in the cabinet. (I didn't have the multiple hundreds of dollars I was told several years ago it would take to repair it.) There is also a box of Greist feet, which implies that one of my grandmothers at some point owned a Greist machine. Also useless to me ATM since the attachment is completely unsuited to Singers.

But then there are a half-dozen feet that actually fit Maggie. So she now has a ruffler foot and a binder foot and four for which I've yet to identify their purpose. There was also a manual for a Singer 201-2 Electric Sewing Machine, with a purchase receipt from 1971 and a repair receipt from 1977, both with my mother's name on them. Mom, you still have this machine? Want its manual back? And possibly its feet?

manual

(Anonymous) 2011-08-07 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, please. It's probably for the machine in the Coral Suite....feet, too.
So, how's the slider? Much easier to open hopefully.

Re: manual

[identity profile] sakon76.livejournal.com 2011-08-07 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. I'm willing to bet those six feet that fit Maggie are actually for your machine, so I've put them in the attachments box and will remember to bring it all your way sometime soonish.

Slider works lovely. You will have to come up and see it sometime! :) How was Uncle Scott?

[identity profile] racerxmachina.livejournal.com 2011-08-07 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Remember when I showed you those pictures and we played "guess the use of this foot"? I should put pictures of the real stumpers up on lj and see if anyone knows.

[identity profile] sakon76.livejournal.com 2011-08-08 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Do!

[identity profile] ghilledhu.livejournal.com 2011-08-08 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Haha...but do they got toejam football? ^_^

I have a large assortment of mystery feet for vintage Singers, and someday I would love to figure out what they are and what they do. The only thing I'm pretty sure about is that none of them are zipper feet.

[identity profile] sakon76.livejournal.com 2011-08-08 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Well, this page (http://www.treadleon.net/sewingmachineshop/atttachmentsmanual/attachments.html) might help you identify some of them. Post pictures on LJ of the rest and see if people here can help you puzzle them out?