This is my husband Scott's great grandma's treadle sewing machine that I am going to work on a little everyday to get up and working for National Sewing month.  It is in pretty bad shape.  But from all my reading on vintage machines, and the few I have in my sewing machine stable, I know I can get her into good working order. I think I will call her Nellie, in honor of her previous owner Nellie Farison (my husband's great-grandma) And many thanks to his mom Linda,  (yup, the same name as my mom!) for giving me this machine to care for.  

She is a Minnesota New Model A sewing machine which was a badged machine sold by Sears and Roebuck.  From what I can tell so far, it was made by the Domestic Sewing Machine Company for Sears after 1920.  There is some good information here: http://www.kelsew.info/Domestic/domesticmodelsnolinks.html and here:http://www.enotes.com/topic/Singer_Model_27_and_127 and here: http://www.ismacs.net/sears/sears.html It is also possible that is is a clone of a Davis Model E.  But from looking at the pictures, I think it was made by Domestic.

The serial # is  12524. 

Here's the pics of the treadle head. It was froze up when I started.  The cabinet is in equally awful condition.  I actually took some water on a papertowel to clean up the worst of the grime, and she has had a liberal amount of sewing machine oil applied to her in order to get the works unfrozen,  I have got the mechanism moving, and the bobbin winder will move up and down, but I can't get it to rotate and move. I am a little afraid to unscrew it, because some instructions for refurbing a similar Singer bobbin winder caution that unscrewing it will mean having to readjust it because there is a spring in there.  I also can not get the plates on the base where the bobbins go in to slide at all, nor can I get the screw for the round plate next to them to move.

And now the photos of the cabinet:

And these are the attachments that came with it. One has "Greist" on it. I'd love to learn what they all do.  Some I know, and others I think I might be able to figure out from similar Singer attachments.

And those are the pieces of the drawers that I have.  I have everything except for one of the narrow top drawers.  Just need to glue them back together and refinish them.

The attachments in their cardboard box:

This blog is a sewing and fiber arts blog where I can share my love of all things sewing and knitting.  It is a legacy that was passed down from my grandmother Dolly Doris Pryor and Linda Knapp. I have my grandmother's sewing table and chair, and many of her sewing things as well as my mom's serger and many of her sewing things.  I also have a bunch of knitting stuff that was passed down to me from them.  While I didn't really get to fully experience my love of all things sewing while they were alive, they passed on the legacy to me.