sewing machines

My Homemade Hand Crank Singer 403A

Sewing / crafts, featured, sewing machines

Could it be this easy? Just add a knob to the hand wheel? I didn’t know, but the motor doesn’t work any more, so there was nothing to lose by trying. I drilled a hole in the hand wheel and attached a bit of dowel with a screw. Voila, a modern zigzag hand crank sewing […]

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My New Pfaff Sewing Machine

Sewing / Pfaff, sewing, sewing machines, Singer

From May 2009. I’m putting it back because it is still one of my favorite stories! I went to the free swap at the library, bringing my bags of old junk and expecting some other, fresher and thus more fun junk in return. I did not expect a Pfaff sewing machine to be sitting on

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