Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing

Regularly maintained machines can still give you a nasty surprise.  Before starting my latest project I thoroughly oiled my Singer 1...

Looking at these first test stitches made by a 1918 Singer 99K, you would not be able to tell that two days previously I was hardly able ...

It was high time I lavished a bit of tender loving care on my stalwart 1945 15K treadle, which serves me so well for all my free motion q...

Here is the view inside the back inspection plate.  This was before I got rid of all the nasty brown residue. At the top of the sha...

And a truly hideous picture to match.   This was the state of the innards of the 15K inside the back inspection plate.  Somebody decid...

At the moment I am cleaning up a 1949 Singer 15K hand machine.  When I bought it the metalwork was unusually clean and it turned well.  I...

This morning I nipped in to Cordial and Grace and oiled the shuttle race on Maria's Jones CS machine - the one thing I had forgotten ...

It's always a thrill when you find that an old machine has the manual with it.  If I haven't got the manual I just oil every obvi...

... good, efficient little goblins, as shown in the Vesta manual, who will oil your machine for you when you are not looking. Then they...

Nothing could be easier.  This photograph shows the Little Vesta, and a previous post showed the same feature on the Vesta Transverse Shu...

This picture of the Vesta shows a very helpful feature that Vesta included on their machines.  The holes for lubricating the machine wer...