A little light nostalgia to end your evening.

[onebatmother]

I have a very old sewing-machine - 1950s I think - which I've had out this evening. The first line of the manual is:

"Thank you for having chosen our sewing machine."

I love it, OBM.
Thank you for having shared that with us.

You don't see grammar like that any more

ooooh yes.

I have a very old Junior Encyclopeadia
published 1962

Last entry for - The World : It's History

1961
Man's first flight into space made by Major Yuri Gagarin, Soviet airman, who cirlcles the earth at 25,0000 miles and hour before landing safely in Russia.

Oh how interesting! About the machine!!!! Does your sewing machine have normal bobbins or does it have the bullet style? I have looked everywhere for the bullet style but no one seems to know anything about them!

Do you?

I do not know, all I know is that it looks like a bullet!

Tut tut, BlinkingNora!

LOL at your 'very old' encyclopedia: we have a copy of Arthur Mee which ends with The Hope of The World which explains that new-fangled thing called the League of Nations.
Interestingly, it also has an entry entitled climate's effect on history. Oh, how our perceptions have changed!

Pinkbubble I have a bullet-shaped shuttle bobbin machine - the 28k type

it is from 1896

and it still works

How amazing mrsB. Mine is boring normal shuttle, but the manual is so cheering I don't care..

Mine did still work until a few wks back, but at the mo has stopped. I am after some more bullet style bobbin cases, but just looked on web site and they £30.50!!

Are the machines worth any money?

Onebat - Has the onebatlaundry added visible mending to its menu of services or are you treating yourself to a new pinny?

a new thong for dp, swedes my dear. To go with our beachtowel (hurrah, got the very last one!)

To be honest the process of cutting down my old lycra catsuit (from my Legs and Co days) has been rather trying and I'm beginning to wish I'd gone here like everyone else.

no more than £50 it seems

My mum had a knitting machine. Anyone remember those. When she got it out dad used to slink off with the dog for a walk and DB and I used to suddenly decide we wanted to go to bed. It made a horrible rasping noise interspersed with bouts of the kind of language we didn't know mum knew We used to call it the cussing machine.

It made horrible garments too.

My Mum had a knitting machine I had a knitted school jumper. I was the only person in my school with a home-made school jumper. It's scarred me.

One good thing about the knitting machine - it came with little weights, to hang on your knitting to pull it down as you did the bit. These were little blocks with a brass 'lid' with hooks that flipped open. They made great Star Trek communicators - Mum could never find them because my brother and I would be "beam me up, Scotty" -ing all round the house and flipping these things open just like on Star Trek.

Ah.... now you found a positive to it then! Well done . My school jumpers always used to be too long in the arm and too tight. One also had a baggy waist. No idea how she managed that

onebat - your dp will be so pleased.

I love my sewing machine in spite of it aiding and abetting me in some heinous fashion crimes in the 80s.

not... new romantic fashion crimes? I have images of you scowling at the camera at le beat route with white pancake make-up on and beauty spots, with Steve sTrange in the background..