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Installing a Long Shuttle TreadleLady 629 views When doing the video of winding a long bobbin I should have included how to install the shuttle in the carrier. My 40 page booklet on cleaning and using a treadle sewing ma...
Mac Finder Icon Baby TreadleLady 396 views A Mac Finder Icon Baby is born (made) on the delivery table of a vintage treadle sewing machine from my collection. For those who don't know, that's a foot powered, not ele...
How To Use a Seam Ripper - Another way TreadleLady 1,480 views This method of using a seam ripper is not commonly known. It works best when the fabric does not stretch and if you can keep it taut.
Treadle Sewing Machines Are Like Classic Cars TreadleLady 2,681 views For years I've been saying, "Treadles are like classic cars, take them for a Sunday drive."
Sewing - Miter a Hem for Tablecloths, Placemats or any 90 degree angle TreadleLady 12,064 views Making a mitered hem is easier than you think when you see it done. Video shows a few finished corners of tablecloths then a detail of actually mitering a corner. Captions ...
Treadles & Tea Episode 1 with Miss Ellen Elevator Singer Model 66 Parlor Treadle TreadleLady 3,747 views Join me for a cup of tea and a Dutch stroopwafel while you are introduced to Miss Ellen Elevator, a 1923 Singer Model 66 parlor treadle sewing machine. Can you guess how ma...
Threading a Shuttle on a Treadle Sewing Machine TreadleLady 5,154 views Long bobbins can be a mystery if you are trying to figure it out on your own. This shuttle and bobbin is for a vibrating shuttle machine. It fits into the carrier that move...
Wind a Long Bobbin on a Treadle Sewing Machine TreadleLady 6,584 views My grandmother taught me to use her treadle sewing machine in 1954 in her adobe house in El Paso, Texas. Years later I lived with her for almost a year, she then owned two ...
Freddy the Kohler Zick-Zack Treadle Sewing Machine TreadleLady 2,277 views The quilt behind Freddy was made on treadle sewing machines. Ruffles were made with a ruffler attachment on an 1889 Singer VS2, the chain stitched lines on the fans were ma...
Treadle Sewing Machines Book Trailer TreadleLady 14,451 views Learn to clean and use an iron lady, or gent. The machine being used is an 1889 Singer VS2, with a fiddle base sewing machine head. The decals are very worn but Bertha gl...

About Treadle Lady

Treadle sewing machines and hand crank sewing machines

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Jan 28, 2012

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May 29, 2010

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My grandmother taught me to use her treadle sewing machine in 1954 in her adobe house in El Paso, Texas. Years later I lived with her for almost a year, she then owned two treadle sewing machines, and we treadled together. Over the years I owned many electric machines but my first treadle, purchased at a swap meet in 1973, became my old dependable that would sew through heavy canvas when the electrics would not. In 1993, after a turn of events I decided I no longer wanted electric machines and gave away or sold them. By 1999 I decided I had to have a second treadle, like grandmother had, but I couldn't stop at 2 or 3 or 4, they are like potato chips, can't stop. The iron beauties are dependable once they are cleaned and oiled. Treadle sewing machines have a junkyard reputation because they were neglected and are often jammed with lint, thread and dried oils.

I have been featured in several quilt magazines with my machines and quilts made entirely on treadle and hand crank sewing machines. In 2004 I was a guest on HGTV's Simply Quilts show with Alex Anderson, show #923. I also speak to quilt guilds about antique and collectible sewing machines and since 1999 have participated in the Civil War Revisited in Fresno, California. Over the years thousands of people have seen my machines operate effortlessly and many re-enactors have come to me for advice to get their machines operating.
Website is also at http://web.me.com/kohler2/Treadlelady.com/Home.html

My other channel is Mamanie2

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Fresno, California

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United States

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