Great job!!! I don't know if people realize that a seamstress really needs to have some mechanical aptitude also! I was given a little table top (cast iron) Kenmore from a former tenant where I managed an apt. (She gave me her grandma's machine) the The bobbin winder was frozen up, so it took me to taking the machine apart, cleaning and oiling the whole thing. Not too hard. But well worth it. It sewed my jersey chiffon great, unlike my industrial. I learned on my own, and now I have a great alternative machine!
A perfect job for someone who is actually going to use the machine! I've just saved an old Singer 111g156 from land fill. I restored it and have resprayed it in red with gold Singer logo. It was originally dull grey with most of the paint gone and rust everywhere through bad storage for years. I intend to use the machine and to keep it forever. Well done to you, great video!
Gemma is the name. This video is at a whole other level. I have watched countless videos about free motion embroidery and you just made me understand sewing in a new way. Yesterday I learned to use the blind stitch on my Brother. It was very difficult to work through this new learning experience but I kept trying. I didn't give up. Watching your video made me think refurbishing your treadle machine was difficult till I saw the last frames and then understood you had unconsciously planned this all out for a long time. My current conversion is turning a coat into a cape. And planning to do many more. I'm making foot warmers, too. Your art form is so gorgeous and the highest expression of committed love. God Bless You!
Hello. I have many vintage Singer machines and I have restored them and some I have had to repaint and I did not always go with traditional. It is okay. These machines were built to last and getting them working and back into the hands of those who loves them is important. So glad you found yours and happy to see you using it for such beautiful artistry. Enjoy.
Love it. My name suggestion is Clara as she is a very controversial refurbish. Named after Clara Lemlich Shavelson, known for being controversial for speaking up at a union meeting in about 1910 regarding the poor work conditions. Woman weren't aloud to air their opinions. 20 000 workers rose in agreement with her. What a woman!
How amazing !!!! I have a collection of vintage Singers and a couple old German brands they are amazing! But that is the ONE machine I don’t have yet and am always on the look for one. My love of vintage machines began a couple of years ago when I saw a metal singer at a garage sale for $10.00. I had zero clue about it except I knew old metal machines were better than the new plastic ones I had. It was a 401A and fell in love. It had all of the cams and original feet everything. After that I just started buying all of the ones I could find and got my first industrial Juki. I’d never ever go back to new plastic machines ever
This is just a precious, special little machine. Thank you so much for creating this video and taking us through how you customised this machine. I am so blessed by watching this customisation. I wish you many years of wonderful appliqué sewing with this little beauty.
This is gorgeous! And you used two of my favorite hobbies: sewing and furniture refurbishing/painting!! Your free-motion lace applique is beautiful! Great that you now have a dedicated machine for this specialty component of your business! Continued success to you! Love your videos!!🙋🏻♀️👍👌
Wow ! Extremely Beautiful, I always and still does want one of these sewing machine , I'm still trying to locate my grandmother's machine from one of my family members ❤
Love this video. What an inspiration. I inherited my husband’s grandmother’s sewing machines (one from mom’s side and one from dad’s). They’ve been on display in my sewing room...collecting dust. I love how you thought of dedicating your restoration for one purpose. I may just try this on one of mine. Thank you for continuing to inspire us!
Brenda, I saw this video when it first came out and wanted to do this! It will be great to have this set up to go at any time. Happily I was able to buy I a lovely Singer "Red Eye" treadle machine from a local facebook ad! It didn"t need any painting or new decals they are amazingly in perfect condition! I did buy the plate for the feed dogs as I don"t know how to remove them. I wonder where I can get an applique foot for it. I wonder what you did with the tension disks. I'm going to experiment with them. I love your inspiring and helpful videos you have helped me so much and I thank you!
Oh my, thank you for this! I feel like I've just been given permission to redo my 1905 treadle into something that suits me. I've been afraid to upset family by making any alterations so it's been unused (other than a hall table) for more than 20 years.
Welcome to the world of vintage singer awesomeness. I have the exact cabinet. The sound they make just melts my heart. I have the 27 with the shuttle bobbins. Enjoy. Call her Lacey
Lacey is a great name! I've actually loved vintage Singers for many years. I used to restore them when I was a stay at home mom. I would find one on Craigslist, buy it, restore it, and flip it. My home machine is a 15-91 potted motor. My first industrial was a roughly 100 year old 31-15 that I still have. This is just my first treadle refurb. I have another 15-91 that I just converted to a leather sewing machine for my son. Singers are amazing.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful interesting and informative video. I have a small collection of sewing machine. .Viewing from the French island St Martin in the Caribbean. I have manual Treadle and electric.
I have my Great Aunts from 1911. Now I’m finally going to replace the belt and clean her up. I did just replace a lace hem on my Singer 301 thanks to your ideas because lifting the the pressure foot on my Juki wasn’t working..
You totally inspired me to invest in a good old singer workhorse! I just started bridal sewing officially in January. I have been using my home machines but they’re computerized and I haven’t loved the amount of wear and tear I’ve put on them. I’m also not in a position to purchase a juki, so this feels like an excellent compromise. One gallon of lily white oil is arriving Friday- I can’t wait to get using it in my shop!
Once you try a vintage you ain't going back to a plastic machine. But a warning notice is that it can become an addiction very quickly. I have about 7 vintage machines now and counting. :)
The clear wonder clips are genius. Plus this is a totally brilliant idea. I love it. I doubt if I would have made her so pretty as you did! But its fun that you did.
I can’t lie I’m rather envious of this beauty! I would get one if I could but will have to watch and admire your one of a kind machine haha ☺️ It’s gotta be a vintage sounding name to go with the vintage singer
Oh she's beautiful! I would name her Terah which is close to how they say 'sewing' in Hebrew. I would bless her with the verse from Revelation 19:7 "Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”
Wow! I have a machine very similar to that and I use it for display purposes (my branding is black, gold, silver, white). Now you have me thinking!!! Name suggestion: Marion! After Marion Anderson a famous black female opera "Singer!"
I have a 1910 Singer "Red-eye" treadle that right now is just a decoration. I purchased it with the intent of restoring it, but I just haven't taken the time to actually do it. One day though. Once restored, I will have to move it somewhere that isn't carpeted because the weight has it sinking in where you can't actually use the treadle. Then I will have to learn how to thread it as all the machines that I use are the newer easy thread versions...I never learned how to thread the older versions. sigh!
It would if I used it right away, however, I let this cure a couple weeks before I used it. It does wear down as well fairly quickly, that's what I was meaning by trying to describe how it shows wear quickly. It's really hard to describe. There is not enough that rubs off to leave a film, residue, or lightening of any kind on the gown. Certainly less wax would rub on it than even a waxed thread would leave. But it does wear down some. I personally love the look of the worn spots. It makes it look like it took decades of sewing to wear it when when in actuality, it was only a couple months.
Not right after. After I clear coated a couple of layers, then, if there was an edge still present, I softened it out with fine sand paper. Then did another coat to make the edge and abrasions disappear.
I love this! I bought a vintage Singer a few months ago. She needed some work, but now she sews like a dream. Named her after my maternal Grandmother Lucy. What name did you settle on?
Half of my machines are treadles in my shop. I have a Davis even feed, a Singer #3 and a Singer class 15. Plus I have a 66 at home, a 128 handcrank and a Featherweight I turned into one. I would get rid of my Consew if I could find an industrial treadle.
Beautiful machine. I offer you a few names from the past: Marcella, Agnes, Charlotte, Cordelia, Magdelene, and Adelaide. She's lovely -- maybe that's her name: Lovely. Let us know.
Good job, it looks beautiful. And how nice for this old mashine, to actually be used again for its intended purpose. Not to mention, making your life easier. As for a name...how about 'Miss Havisham', after the Charles Dicken's character. 'Amelia Havisham is a character in the Charles Dicken's novel Great Expectation (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".' (Wikipedia). Unless, you'd regard the 'jilted at the altar' as a bad omen for your customers 😉 But it does fit with the wedding theme and the mashine having been unused and unwanted, collecting dust somewhere, for so long. And it's a delightfully Victorian sounding name as well.
Did you buy your hand crank new or was it used? I’m refurbishing a couple of old machines and want to add the hand crank. Thanks for the video. She’s lovely!
I dream of owning a machine like This someday!! She looks like a Lydia to me though I do like the previous comment of Clara! I hope you share the name with us when you choose!
I am Sandeep from India.I have Singer sewing machine very old may be around 1942.Machine is in working condition but supporting wooden platform is almost damged.Can I get it done in good condition? Please advice.
I love your work on the machine. 👏🏼🥇🏆 I want to try it on one of my antique machines. What kind of spray paint did you use? (Acrylic enamel, satin, gloss?) After each of the first 2 coats you sanded right? What kind of clear coat did you use? I hope mine comes out looking this great as well also because it so expensive to get it professionally done and I’ve seen that for some there’s up to 2 years waiting time 😱
I used krylon enamel spray paint I think? I can't remember. You might can see it in the video. I sealed it with a clear gloss. I definitely sanded between coats, using finer sand paper each time.
I have several antique singer sewing machines and I want to sell them, but don't know where to go, I live in the tai-state area, can you point me in the right direction to sell them. thanks
for the name : If you plan on restoring many more machines then start with the letter 'A' womans name and go from there. If you get a lot of machines then you will be able to tell in what order you got them and maybe what they can or can not do. Write it on the base next to the number!
Great job!!! I don't know if people realize that a seamstress really needs to have some mechanical aptitude also! I was given a little table top (cast iron) Kenmore from a former tenant where I managed an apt. (She gave me her grandma's machine) the
The bobbin winder was frozen up, so it took me to taking the machine apart, cleaning and oiling the whole thing. Not too hard. But well worth it. It sewed my jersey chiffon great, unlike my industrial. I learned on my own, and now I have a great alternative machine!
So nice .you did it . Hard working and impressive. "Old is Gold". God bless you.
A perfect job for someone who is actually going to use the machine! I've just saved an old Singer 111g156 from land fill. I restored it and have resprayed it in red with gold Singer logo. It was originally dull grey with most of the paint gone and rust everywhere through bad storage for years. I intend to use the machine and to keep it forever. Well done to you, great video!
Gemma is the name.
This video is at a whole other level. I have watched countless videos about free motion embroidery and you just made me understand sewing in a new way.
Yesterday I learned to use the blind stitch on my Brother. It was very difficult to work through this new learning experience but I kept trying. I didn't give up. Watching your video made me think refurbishing your treadle machine was difficult till I saw the last frames and then understood you had unconsciously planned this all out for a long time.
My current conversion is turning a coat into a cape. And planning to do many more.
I'm making foot warmers, too.
Your art form is so gorgeous and the highest expression of committed love.
God Bless You!
Lovely machine! Popular names of the era she was made in were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret, Ruth, Virginia, Elizabeth, Anna, Mildred and Betty.
Tiffany, from Breakfast at Tiffany's. Black, sleek, and covered in jewels.
Wouldn’t Audrey be more fitting
@@dylanortiz2246 To be more accurate, it should be Holly Golightly.
Hello. I have many vintage Singer machines and I have restored them and some I have had to repaint and I did not always go with traditional. It is okay. These machines were built to last and getting them working and back into the hands of those who loves them is important. So glad you found yours and happy to see you using it for such beautiful artistry. Enjoy.
Thank you!!!! 🥰
Love it. My name suggestion is Clara as she is a very controversial refurbish. Named after Clara Lemlich Shavelson, known for being controversial for speaking up at a union meeting in about 1910 regarding the poor work conditions. Woman weren't aloud to air their opinions.
20 000 workers rose in agreement with her. What a woman!
Fantastic idea & reasons! ❤🧵✂️❤
Oh, I love the name Clara. My grandaughter was born days ago and her name is Clara.
@@tammiemurray9963 I've always loved it because of the Nutcracker, but I love this back story very much.
I had never heard of Clara. Thank you!
How amazing !!!! I have a collection of vintage Singers and a couple old German brands they are amazing! But that is the ONE machine I don’t have yet and am always on the look for one. My love of vintage machines began a couple of years ago when I saw a metal singer at a garage sale for $10.00. I had zero clue about it except I knew old metal machines were better than the new plastic ones I had. It was a 401A and fell in love. It had all of the cams and original feet everything. After that I just started buying all of the ones I could find and got my first industrial Juki. I’d never ever go back to new plastic machines ever
I purchased a few old machines that were talking to me so I had to buy them! Now I have to move them. You did a beautiful job!
These machines always come back to life and can sew again! Love the knobs! It looks great a new lease on life! Thats perfect! Thanks for sharing!🤗💐👍🏽
Yeah those machines can last forever with proper care.
This is just a precious, special little machine. Thank you so much for creating this video and taking us through how you customised this machine. I am so blessed by watching this customisation. I wish you many years of wonderful appliqué sewing with this little beauty.
Awww! Thank you so much!! ❤
@@BridalSewing You are so very welcome!
So beautiful! Love the machine, so amazing. I didn’t realize that I have an antique sewing machine drawer that was gifted to me!
This is gorgeous! And you used two of my favorite hobbies: sewing and furniture refurbishing/painting!! Your free-motion lace applique is beautiful! Great that you now have a dedicated machine for this specialty component of your business! Continued success to you! Love your videos!!🙋🏻♀️👍👌
Wow ! Extremely Beautiful, I always and still does want one of these sewing machine , I'm still trying to locate my grandmother's machine from one of my family members ❤
She looks like a Sylvia to me. Rolls off the tongue...Sylvia Singer with the invisible thread. 😄😎 Cool idea thanks for sharing!
Love this video. What an inspiration. I inherited my husband’s grandmother’s sewing machines (one from mom’s side and one from dad’s). They’ve been on display in my sewing room...collecting dust. I love how you thought of dedicating your restoration for one purpose. I may just try this on one of mine. Thank you for continuing to inspire us!
you may not have done a 'restoration' but it still looks great and is still a working part of history.
Thank you!
What w beautiful job, really impressive. Thanks for sharing ☺️
Amazing restoration on sewing vintage classic. Wow!
Brenda, I saw this video when it first came out and wanted to do this! It will be great to have this set up to go at any time. Happily I was able to buy I a lovely Singer "Red Eye" treadle machine from a local facebook ad! It didn"t need any painting or new decals they are amazingly in perfect condition! I did buy the plate for the feed dogs as I don"t know how to remove them. I wonder where I can get an applique foot for it. I wonder what you did with the tension disks. I'm going to experiment with them. I love your inspiring and helpful videos you have helped me so much and I thank you!
Have fun!! It was a lot of trial and error for me. Lol Lot's of cheap parts from ebay!
Oh my, thank you for this! I feel like I've just been given permission to redo my 1905 treadle into something that suits me. I've been afraid to upset family by making any alterations so it's been unused (other than a hall table) for more than 20 years.
I'm late to watching this. Glad I did though. Cool that you're so creative and talented on your machines and the creations you make with them.
I have a vintage Singer that I had restored and I was going to give it away...until I saw this video! This is a perfect use and you did an amazing job
Welcome to the world of vintage singer awesomeness. I have the exact cabinet. The sound they make just melts my heart. I have the 27 with the shuttle bobbins. Enjoy. Call her Lacey
Lacey is a great name! I've actually loved vintage Singers for many years. I used to restore them when I was a stay at home mom. I would find one on Craigslist, buy it, restore it, and flip it. My home machine is a 15-91 potted motor. My first industrial was a roughly 100 year old 31-15 that I still have. This is just my first treadle refurb. I have another 15-91 that I just converted to a leather sewing machine for my son. Singers are amazing.
Awsome job! I have one as well and am planning on restoring ! I ALSO like the wood finish you used.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful interesting and informative video. I have a small collection of sewing machine. .Viewing from the French island St Martin in the Caribbean. I have manual Treadle and electric.
I have my Great Aunts from 1911. Now I’m finally going to replace the belt and clean her up. I did just replace a lace hem on my Singer 301 thanks to your ideas because lifting the the pressure foot on my Juki wasn’t working..
Beautiful machine and I can hear the joy for her in your voice. For some odd reason Prudence immediately came to mind for her name.
You totally inspired me to invest in a good old singer workhorse! I just started bridal sewing officially in January. I have been using my home machines but they’re computerized and I haven’t loved the amount of wear and tear I’ve put on them. I’m also not in a position to purchase a juki, so this feels like an excellent compromise. One gallon of lily white oil is arriving Friday- I can’t wait to get using it in my shop!
Once you try a vintage you ain't going back to a plastic machine. But a warning notice is that it can become an addiction very quickly. I have about 7 vintage machines now and counting. :)
I restored the same machine and absolutely love it 🥰
Sooo stunning, and inspirational! Love the details!!! Thank u for sharing this with us!
What a great story and beautiful finish
The clear wonder clips are genius. Plus this is a totally brilliant idea. I love it. I doubt if I would have made her so pretty as you did! But its fun that you did.
I can’t lie I’m rather envious of this beauty! I would get one if I could but will have to watch and admire your one of a kind machine haha ☺️
It’s gotta be a vintage sounding name to go with the vintage singer
Oh she's beautiful! I would name her Terah which is close to how they say 'sewing' in Hebrew. I would bless her with the verse from Revelation 19:7
"Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”
WOW!!
Wow! I have a machine very similar to that and I use it for display purposes (my branding is black, gold, silver, white). Now you have me thinking!!! Name suggestion: Marion! After Marion Anderson a famous black female opera "Singer!"
I have a 1910 Singer "Red-eye" treadle that right now is just a decoration. I purchased it with the intent of restoring it, but I just haven't taken the time to actually do it. One day though. Once restored, I will have to move it somewhere that isn't carpeted because the weight has it sinking in where you can't actually use the treadle. Then I will have to learn how to thread it as all the machines that I use are the newer easy thread versions...I never learned how to thread the older versions. sigh!
There's so much help online. Don't be intimidated. I usually find the old manual online & print it off.
I have the same treadle machine & table! I'm still in the process of getting her functional again
Such a good use of that machine. Nice job!
This is AWESOME! That’s a great idea taking the feed dogs out of a vintage machine to make it a permanent free motion machine!
Very helpful. Thank you
Gorgeous! How about Casper?
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing this! I use a Singer 201 for free motion lace, and it works great
Very nice great job.
Beautiful!!! I love it all and NOW I’m inspired to work on my tired old lady. I wonder how white and silver would look with the white wax??💡🤔
Jewel 💎 ...because she's your treasure.
I have a very similar vintage machine i plan to do this to, where did you get the foot?
Wow!! Great job!! Love it!!
Fabulous work, love that you found a key after some detective work. Presumably the white wax doesn’t rub off onto fabric? Great project!
It would if I used it right away, however, I let this cure a couple weeks before I used it. It does wear down as well fairly quickly, that's what I was meaning by trying to describe how it shows wear quickly. It's really hard to describe. There is not enough that rubs off to leave a film, residue, or lightening of any kind on the gown. Certainly less wax would rub on it than even a waxed thread would leave. But it does wear down some. I personally love the look of the worn spots. It makes it look like it took decades of sewing to wear it when when in actuality, it was only a couple months.
That is so lovely! Thanks for sharing!
Great job! Once you applied the decals did you sand over them? Thank YOU
Not right after. After I clear coated a couple of layers, then, if there was an edge still present, I softened it out with fine sand paper. Then did another coat to make the edge and abrasions disappear.
Oh she looks like a Suzette to me, beautiful job!
Where can you find the stickers to replace the painting on the machine?
I love this! I bought a vintage Singer a few months ago. She needed some work, but now she sews like a dream. Named her after my maternal Grandmother Lucy. What name did you settle on?
I still haven't. I know it's crazy.
Half of my machines are treadles in my shop. I have a Davis even feed, a Singer #3 and a Singer class 15. Plus I have a 66 at home, a 128 handcrank and a Featherweight I turned into one. I would get rid of my Consew if I could find an industrial treadle.
It’s beautiful!
Beautiful machine. I offer you a few names from the past: Marcella, Agnes, Charlotte, Cordelia, Magdelene, and Adelaide. She's lovely -- maybe that's her name: Lovely. Let us know.
Good job, it looks beautiful. And how nice for this old mashine, to actually be used again for its intended purpose. Not to mention, making your life easier.
As for a name...how about 'Miss Havisham', after the Charles Dicken's character.
'Amelia Havisham is a character in the Charles Dicken's novel Great Expectation (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".' (Wikipedia).
Unless, you'd regard the 'jilted at the altar' as a bad omen for your customers 😉
But it does fit with the wedding theme and the mashine having been unused and unwanted, collecting dust somewhere, for so long.
And it's a delightfully Victorian sounding name as well.
Did you buy your hand crank new or was it used? I’m refurbishing a couple of old machines and want to add the hand crank.
Thanks for the video. She’s lovely!
It's a vintage, fully restored, Singer hand crank. :)
I have that exact Singer too! Maybe give it some maintenance too 🧐
I dream of owning a machine like This someday!! She looks like a Lydia to me though I do like the previous comment of Clara! I hope you share the name with us when you choose!
How do treadles not work? Unless it’s totally frozen and rusted. Great job on the machine!
They can get locked up. This one wasn't, but they run really rough if they haven't been oiled.
This amazing 👏
Beautiful, my father in law gave me a treadle few years ago, I'd name her,,,,Icis.
Pearl, her name is pearl ❤️
A beautiful sewing machine! May I suggest her name: Elnora
I am Sandeep from India.I have Singer sewing machine very old may be around 1942.Machine is in working condition but supporting wooden platform is almost damged.Can I get it done in good condition? Please advice.
Yes, do you know someone who can fix the table? I had to do a lot of work to this table to get it stable again.
I love your work on the machine. 👏🏼🥇🏆 I want to try it on one of my antique machines. What kind of spray paint did you use? (Acrylic enamel, satin, gloss?) After each of the first 2 coats you sanded right? What kind of clear coat did you use?
I hope mine comes out looking this great as well also because it so expensive to get it professionally done and I’ve seen that for some there’s up to 2 years waiting time 😱
I used krylon enamel spray paint I think? I can't remember. You might can see it in the video. I sealed it with a clear gloss. I definitely sanded between coats, using finer sand paper each time.
@@BridalSewing Got it. I’m going to try it.🤞🏼
@@vm1982 if you mess up, you just sand it down, & spray it again. Lol
@@BridalSewing that’s a good idea 😂
Lovely!
Where did you find the clear faceted knobs for the draws?
Lowes :)
My Singer 66 was Built in 1926 at Elizabethport NewJersey.
I have several antique singer sewing machines and I want to sell them, but don't know where to go, I live in the tai-state area, can you point me in the right direction to sell them. thanks
Ebay! :)
Would you mind telling me what the actual paint was? I’ve seen some people use the paint for automobiles.
Krylon enamel from lowes
Nice!
Where can I get decal stickers?
So very cool, Brenda!!
Your happy that’s all that matters
for the name : If you plan on restoring many more machines then start with the letter 'A' womans name and go from there. If you get a lot of machines then you will be able to tell in what order you got them and maybe what they can or can not do. Write it on the base next to the number!
Fun strategy!!
Lacey.
Name her Honey.. she is such a sweetie
👍👍👍👌
Where can I purchase the 'Singer' name?
That's in the video description
Name suggestion: Betsy
Gloria should be her name. She is glorious! Beautiful job
Lacey is her name!
Call her Pearl!
Wow! This is really awesome! I should get back my mother's old sewing machine and try refurbishing it. But I think I will try put an electronic motor
Let’s see if the new machines can last 92 years….not a chance….
Sing silver & gold
Isabell
Maxine