A Channel Milestone! To Mark The Occasion, I'm Sharing Video
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2023
- Ten years ago, I began a graduate school assignment that encouraged me to find something that I could learn to stick with and make a habit. Eight years ago, I posted my first video for the sole purpose of showing the restored condition of my machines to give confidence to those who wanted one of these vintage wonders.
Today, I'm fortunate, and very surprised, to celebrate Video #500!!! And this video is very special to me for many reasons; not the least of which is that I never thought it would be possible to showcase a machine that I restored before ever having a UA-cam Channel. They say that what you send out in the world comes back to you! Yes, I am able to show you the first machine I ever restored. Not just one similar. This is literally that first machine I mustered up the courage to overhaul without having ever seen one before. No, its not time travel, but the next best thing!
Thank you to all of you who have joined, viewed, shared, and stayed with me in this unlikely pursuit that grew from a school assignment to a hobby of 10 years and counting! - Навчання та стиль
I love your channel! Not only does it engender appreciation for the amazing mechanical sewing machines, it helps us keep them sewing. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
A huge thank you for creating this channel and teaching us! You are great!
Congratulations! I'm sooo grateful for your presence on YT and online. Keep it up. I appreciate your dedication and abundance of knowledge!
Congrats on your 500th video. You have given me the courage to clean up the Singer machine I learned to sew on in the 60's and thru of the 70's. It was my mom's.
It has made garments for her, my sisters & me, plus my oldest niece & nephew.
Congrats on 8 years! I really appreciate any information on older machines. I have been saving them for years. Most are in great condition, and I try to keep up with them. I am a quilter and of course have my favorites. I never pay much for them, I get them from auctions or goodwill and even yard sales then I will clean and oil them. I am running out of room! it breaks my heart to see them go to folks that do not appreciate them. I do believe they are making a comeback to the younger generation. I sure hope so, I am old and wonder where they will end up.
Thank you sir .Couldn’t agree with you how far a smile and appreciation for other’s kindness. Interesting points . Respect. Wonderful observation that there are many kind people in this world. Sewing machine people are unique. I’m so appreciative. Please take care of yourself.
I agree wholeheartedly, our actions and our words reflect how our home life, as a child taught us to respect and to be kind to others and yes there may be a moment happen, that we would like to respond differently, but never would because our parents taught us better. Thank you for your videos. I have a 338 that is running slow, I am trying to gain the courage to take it apart and hopefully rebuild it.
Congratulations! Thank you for all five hundred of your awesome & helpful videos.
Glad you like them!
Being the owner of 5 301A's... love that this was your first. I have 3 tans, 1 Lbow, and 1 black. I wouldn't trade any of them for anything! I make a ton of Quilts. I sew every single day on at least one of them.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge and expertise! You're a gem of a human ✨
Congratulations, looking forward to the next 500. Love your videos, the way you present is excellent. I could watch your videos for hours. You have given me the confidence to maintain my machines.
Awesome! Thank you!
Congratulations!!! You have inspired, taught, encouraged so many of us who are now devoted friends. I rewatch and enjoy so many vids. Thank you!!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for your videos. I have learned so much. Keep posting.
Congratulations on 500 videos. Your videos are a fantastic source of information and entertaining. Thanks for sharing with us.
How fun to reconnect with your first sewing machine project. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I found you during the lockdown, when none of my vintage machines were working well. I needed help and thanks to you and a few other You-tubers I was able to get up and running, again. I never miss an episode! Congratulations on your milestone. 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Congratulations ❤I’m very excited for you. I developed the love for them last year. I’m surprised how hard I fell in love with them.
Congrats on your 500th video!🎉❤Love the Vintage Sewing Machine Garage! Wish you the very best!
Thank you so much!!
Congratulations 🍾
Thank you!!
Congratulations on 500 videos!🎉 I know it is a lot of work but you have provided so much invaluable information over the years and watching your videos was one of the things that grew my love for these old machines. I used to watch them just to hear how they sounded, I love how they sound. I can’t believe you were able to find the first machine you worked on, that is so amazing! Here’s to 500 more great videos!
Thank you so much!
Congratulations, You inspired me, I bought a vintage sewing machine from the '60s. Continue the excellent work
That is awesome!
Congratulations on you 500th!!!!! We love watching, waiting for a new video to drop, and hearing your voice share minute details of lovely, iconic sewing machines. There are few knowledgeable mechanics or even sewists out here now( at least in the US) that understand and appreciate the truly fabulous, superior, vintage sewing machines. Thank you for teaching us how to care for these beauties and thank you for saving your viewers so much money. ( Yes, you certainly have). It's wonderful to know that others out there in UA-camland also love vintage machines as much as we do.Looking forward to 1,500 🙂 Bless you.
Belated congratulations. I have been watching your videos for most of the past year since I started this hobby, but just today found video #500. You present a fascinating story of how things find their way into one's life. I very much appreciated your comments on social behavior (common courtesy).
It's interesting how the universe works. On Thursday I presented a 301 that I rehabbed to a good friend. I liked it so much that I bought one for myself on E-bay, and it is a two tone model just like the one in this video. I'm hoping I can do as good a job with it as you do with your machines.
Please keep putting out the great videos.
Thanks to you I have many machines that I got from COVID mask-makers that found out their relatives sewing machine were frozen and could not buy new machines because every store was out of stock. I use to be a painting contractor and "unfroze" spraying equipment due to mis-use and letting paint dry out in the guns/etc. Enter a frozen sewing machine......these challenges are a cognitive experience for an old man, now! I got many of them up and running because of you and your "mind-mapping" approach and back to people who were helping others. Amazing how a revolving shaft can be engineered to make other things move in all directions, maybe the universe is just one-big sewing machine and we all attachments that make things happen! You are a good person and the world needs more of you. Thanks.
Thank you for the kind words. A sewing machine as a fun metaphor for the universe! I think I recall seeing a Salvadore Dali painting that visualized the cosmos as having gears and springs; much like a clock!!
I will also add that corkscrews and sewing machine needles will be here forever on this planet!@@VintageSewingMachineGarage
Congratulations, I have the same machine. It was gifted to me cause my friend couldn't get it to work properly. I cleaned and oiled it. I put on a new thread and noticed she had the bobbin in backwards. Lol, it purrrrs now😊
Thanks for sharing
Congratulations on your milestone! Don't thank us, WE THANK YOU for all of the wonderful information you have shared with us over the years. I have been watching almost since the beginning. Several times I've asked questions, and you have never failed to answer.
And now, today's question: how's the axle greased Kenmore 158-1941 doing? I saw one sold on ebay recently for about US $500
So nice of you
Congratulations on video #500! Thank you for making so many videos! I have watched many of them because I recently purchased a Kenmore 158.17033 (mfg. in 1973-74) which needs some help. I will keep watching your videos, hoping I see a solution for why the decorative reverse-stitch CAMS (double-layer cams) cause the machine to primarily feed the fabric backwards (feeding towards me, instead of away from me) while it stitches the decorative pattern. It is as if the machine were running a mirror image of the movements it should be making. The "built-in" cams for reverse stitch patterns all run in a normal manner (with the fabric primarily feeding away from me). The single-layer decorative CAMS, which are types of zig-zag patterns with no reverse stitching, all work fine. I cannot figure out why, or how, the top CAM follower is causing the feed dogs to consistently work in the opposite direction from which they are supposed to be working. When the feed dogs should be moving the fabric forward, they are moving it in reverse; when they should be moving the fabric in reverse, they are moving the fabric forward. I tested it on three different reverse-stitch CAMS, and it had the same problem with all three. The shape of the stitched pattern is not as good as it should be, either. Have you ever experienced this problem with any Kenmore sewing machines which use decorative reverse-stitch CAMS?
Keep the videos coming! You know more about these vintage Kenmore sewing machines than anyone else I have contacted. (One repair guy said my other (mfg. in 1972) 158.17031 machine, which is in a deep sleep, is not worth fixing...."Let me show you a new (Japanese made) sewing machine on sale for $2K...".) My attitude on new machines is the same as yours. I will patiently and gently keep trying to awaken my old 17031 "sleeping beauty", and will eagerly continue watching your videos. Thank you for sharing what you have learned.
Love your videos. Lokking forward to #500 🎉
Yay! Thank you!
Well done!! 🥳 I have a 301 A and not it just won't sew! It's stuck; it's been sitting for a few months, so maybe I have to really try to troubleshoot it patiently, step by step. Thanks sooo much for all of your videos; they have been very helpful! Take care and God bless!
Good luck!
I’m on the prowl for a Singer 301! I found a Fashion mate 362 at a thrift store last March, and now I’m hooked on vintage machines, I just picked up a free vintage serger and I found your channel through your serger video. Any idea what year the Baby Lock BL 5280E was made? Congrats on 500 videos and I’ve got 50 now on my sewing channel, so thanks for inspiring me!
Karma 😊 Peace
Congratulations on your 500 video's:) How do I get in contact with you to buy a sewing machine from you?