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Mostly sewing related this is a hobby gone wrong. I wanted a black singer like mom had....

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Stop and Linger…

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Robin Lathroum, on the left carried 4 model 66 Singers in her luggage to Uganda to help prevent human trafficking!!! She has done this for years!!!

Winnie on the right has been training women to sew to give them enough income to survive. After training she sends a machine out with 2-3 women at no charge to the women.

These are machines found in thrift stores yard sales and dumpsters. Castoff because they need oiled or the decals are not perfect.

Look up https://www.gloryboundministry.com/

Glory Bound Ministry teaches Ugandan nationals sustainable trades that directly reflect their culture. We provide ways for them to make gene

They can use your help with financing and the process of shipping. It’s difficult to get shipments into Uganda, shippers won’t attempt it so she is reduced to packing machine heads in her luggage and hand carrying them.

Someone out there has a solution.

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GROVER & BAKER SMC

GROVER & BAKER SEWING MACHINE COMPANY 1851 - 1875 Haymarket Square 94 Chambers Street, N.Y Boston, Massachusetts 495 Broadway, New York

A worthwhile website. I believe the original champion of this site has passed away and it is being kept on by his parents. The history of many machine brands is explained in depth.

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Watching a pbs show on physics, Einstein fled Germany to Princeton NJ … where would he flee to now?

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The only published Author that I know personally has written a sci-fi book. Update he has a new book, check Amazon!

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Yesterday I was in a local thrift shop and saw a girl walking around, she was extremely thin, shuffled her feet and held a phone out in front of her. She asked if they had any plastic totes only making herself understood after several tries. The store keeper told her they didn’t have any and she promptly shuffled toward the door.

After she left I was told that she is a local girl who comes in every few days running errands for her mother. She is completely BLIND and holds the phone out for her mother to see and via FaceTime navigates.

I have since reviewed all the thoughts I had when I first saw her: Is she sick? On drugs? Of course she has a phone, is that why she shuffles around? And I felt like an ass for those thoughts but I realize that it’s human nature.

Can you imagine the bravado it takes to go out into the world with only a device held in your hand directing your every move? I assume she could redial through Siri or some voice activated method.

I thought about the mother: Is she disabled? Lazy? Or just trying to let her child have some freedom, an adventure? I tried to imagine as a parent what it would be like to send your child out like that, I would be so stressed.

Can you imagine the thrill the girl has after a successful trip out in the world!

I only hope that the world is kind and helpful to her as she has her adventures.

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I donated 6 more machines to help Glorybound ministries last weekend. They train women in Uganda to sew, this is enough for them to survive. One machine freely given to their graduates can support 2-3 women. Some machines are used in York Pennsylvania to make sewn products that are sold to raise money but they still need financial help, look them up, you can make a difference. https://www.gloryboundministry.com/

Glory Bound Ministry teaches Ugandan nationals sustainable trades that directly reflect their culture. We provide ways for them to make gene

I’ve donated 94 machines so far…

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Yes they sew! Yes they are dust magnets, Yes I have too many…

The Goodspeed & Wyman uses 16x87, 16x95, 16x231, 16x257 or 71x1 needles same as Singer 31-15.

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I tell everyone I come in contact with about donating sewing machines to help women in Uganda who are being trafficked. Sometimes afterward I feel like a boastful jerk BUT so many times someone I have told talks to their church and brings me machines or they have a machine in a shed or garage and I go pick it up and get it sewing and send it in the right direction. Sometimes I do boast a little, it’s only because one machine shared between 2-3 women will let them survive and I have donated 88 so far! The number will make it over a hundred with the next batch!

I’ll keep sounding like a jerk and I’ll be okay with it…

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Tiny thimble, child sized, I don’t remember what I had it sitting on but I like the pattern. The tarnish adds so much depth.

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Singer 401A, they love oil, lots of moving parts, steel cams. Like playing some form of battleship game setting the dials (inner and outer) per the chart in the lid.

I was working on one of these to donate since I made this post. There are a lot of possible letter combinations that make stitches NOT mentioned in the chart in the lid. If you have one of these and figure out just how many stitches are possible (without cams) let me know. Lots of the cam patterns are built in.

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Have you ever seen an Ohio Farmer? He’s outstanding in his field… just kidding several companies made state named machines. I bought this in an antique shop within the first week it was brought in for $65, with the treadle base, the attachments and the instructions.

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A class 15 rescue, was stuck, $25 with the treadle base. I’ll use fast orange hand cleaner to pull some of the grime out of the finish. (No Pumice!) thinking about putting the handwheel in my wood lathe to polish. The feed dogs and cover plates were missing.

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All ready for donation, they will be here to pick up on the 6th, not sure if it will be used in York Pa or sent to Uganda. She was stuck, paid $5, sews nice now!

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We scroll, we scroll and we scroll, past pieces of art and photography that are pieces of human life. Did it turn out anything like we imagined? Did it take longer than we expected? Was it worth it? Were we still excited? Did it just pay the rent?

We scroll past so fast, time compressed to a quick flash beneath our thumb.

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Sleeves for my 78’s, yes, you can sew paper!

I add a curved seam at the bottom to take the impact and prevent tear-out.

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Guess what I’m making…