I replaced all the wires, learned how to thread and use the machine, and in a matter of hours I was finally doing my own sewing! It was just as easy as the guy who inspired me had showed me that it was. It was a motorized unit, though the old wiring was brittle and not safe to use. This finally changed in the fall of 2020 when a friend gave me a 1940s Singer 66 machine, that he found in the trash. At one point I basically gave up, concluding (erroneously) that getting a working antique machine would be a challenge, that these things were not as easy to use as I had thought. There was a Singer, rusted solid, and a 19th century machine by another brand, with a “vibrating shuttle” bobbin case that was like something on an old loom, and that I never could adjust right. I quickly assembled a collection of useless machines. This began a learning period that lasted for a long time for me. I resolved to get my own antique sewing machine. He showed me how he kept the machine oiled and told me that it worked great. I was impressed at how he easily performed simple repairs and other jobs with this old Singer. In 2019, I attended a reenactment event in Ohio, and saw a vendor in the parking lot there sewing uniform insignia with an old foot-powered treadle sewing machine. I am no expert on antique sewing machines.
With the money I spent having things sewn for me, I could have bought my own sewing machine several times over! For 20 years, I had no idea how easy it would have been to have my own, very usable, very beautiful, period correct sewing machine.
I paid other people to work on my gear, or would beg friends with sewing machines to help me out. Over the last 20 years, there were many times that I needed something machine sewn- either uniform insignia such as collar Litzen or Tresse, which were usually machine applied, or repairs to my uniforms and gear.
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