Sewing machines

Sewing machines. They just seem to accumulate around here. Turn around and ..... woops ..... there's another one. Well perhaps not quite that fast. It's just that I was trying to total them up recently and I think there's 18 at last count. Now, there's 4 vintage hand-crank ones and there are my 2 (yes 2) prized featherweights (a 221 & a 222). I have some industrial machines too. Two industrial zig-zags and two industrial straight sewers (+ another one in pieces) and an industrial 3 thread overlocker. Plus my domestic overlocker. Now there's a few modern domestic machines as well. My trusty Pfaff 1473, an Elna Lotus sp, another Elna that belonged to Mum and then there's a lovely old Bernina 720 that I couldn't help myself from buying at a garage sale down the street for $20 last year. How many's that....... 17........ I think I've forgotten one. Oh thats right, the other one is the Seiko compound feed (walking foot + needle feed) industrial. I's a really heavy duty sewing machine. It will sew through 16 layers of vinyl (and fingers) like a hot knife through butter and takes a size 24 needle! that looks like a 3 inch nail with an eye. I run a business from home so I use the industrial ones most days.

The two Featherweights