My office

The room isn’t done yet so I tried to move in items that can be moved out of the way when we do the finish work. Right now, I can fit four treadles and one electric in the cabinet into the room. It feels much better.

I have been working on the heads without bases, trying to figure out what I want to keep. I have a Singer 28, with a bag of parts. I started putting it back together and found out that the parts aren’t correct. They may be for a 128 as they look like the right parts but the faceplate is too big and the feed dog plate won’t fit over the current feed dogs.I think I could get some of the parts to work. I’ve thought about turning this into a hand crank, but I am also starting to think that I’d rather just buy a working hand crank and sort out what to do with this head later. I worked on the Hillbilly Handcrank a bit more. I took off the face plate and it’s just filthy under there. So this needs a major cleaning before I do any more work on it. I think I may put this into the barn treadle. That base needs to be rebuilt. I should be able to redo the top so that this treadle will work in it. I have two White rotary heads that fit, but I’m just not fond of them. I would much rather have this machine working. Then I checked on the New Home. I picked up a shuttle and bobbin for it. It still needs a front cover to the shuttle, but I should be able to test it this weekend. It seems to be a nice machine. I am not sure if I want to keep this one. I have a Singer base that could be modified for this, but am not sure that’s the best use for it.

And that left me with the Minnesota K. I have the base for this, missing drawers and in need of a cleanup. I put the parts back on the machine. I understand taking a machine apart for cleaning but it is so easy to lose parts when you do that. The head still needs cleaning but it’s all there. I wanted this for the base, but am now thinking about getting rid of it. We will be moving and I am trying to cut down on what we take. I’m also still undecided about the Wheeler and Wilson. It’s a good machine and sews just fine. I just don’t have a fondness for it like I do the four machines in my office (five if you count the Singer 237 in the base). I also have a Singer 66 head that I want to use in a treadle and a Singer 99k that I should rehome. I want to have room in case I find a machine I truly want, but I also want these to go to someone that wants to use them.

I still haven’t had time to cut anything out. I did sew a couple of triangles on the Free, just to sew with it. I also have plans to do a little sewing on the Davis. I haven’t used it much, just enough to get a new needle seated right and to make sure that I am threading it correctly. I have plans to do the two Appleturnover.tv tutorials and make those potholders. I want to use the Davis for quilting and binding, but it would be fun to try piecing with it. It is such a pretty machine.

We have the office trailer at the river up for sale. I think we will find a buyer. We need the funds to finish clean up at the river and to finish this house. They plan to have a wake for George at the river next weekend. We have volunteers willing to do some cleanup for that, so maybe we can make some progress there. There’s just so much to do.

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