The big thrill today was bringing home a 1919 Singer red-eye sewing machine. The wholly manual machine works. The seller, One Second Chance, is a real sewing machine aficionado. He sold this to me for $90, showed me how to work it, and has the manual somewhere...But the machine has all the parts and I do have an address for an online version of the manual. It weighs a ton. I brought it up to my mandolin room by resting it on my lap and pushing my butt up the 16 steps to the second floor one step at a time. I threaded the machine, muscle memory from threading my mother's Singer over the years, started to pump, and voila!, sewing happened!
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