MiniKennie Love - Will it chain stitch?????????

https://youtu.be/ilBC2ykaFuE

I am pretty sure I have never yelled that loud at a video in my life.

Of course, now I don't really need a basting machine, but still I have all the parts......!!!!!!!!!

Not long enough

but...

All in all, a nice little sewing machine

the list of these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBC2ykaFuE&t=9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FGn4lR1aFM&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWDbOFz-7k&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skkx7xdY8Os

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0m-5K8bWk&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLaF2xGO7ho&t=4s

This post is pretty much gold on the topic. Lots of 'this worked for me' details that I don't think you get with a video

https://vintagesewingmachinesblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/reliable-chain-stitch-with-the-jaguar-adapter/

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/554101/Kenmore-17570.html?page=15

https://tumorfarmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-to-sew-basting-stitches-by-machine.html
pictures of the manuals

https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage-antique-machine-enthusiasts-f22/white-rotary-chain-stitch-t207439.html?fbclid=IwAR2veQqKAzv4FmvqBgEbhxfwqxCMUrKEqqJwK_8HjiNNAspGgvm9a-XER4s
a few i've never seen before

and a little machine p2rn
https://youtu.be/3FnKuqJcqHM

MiniKennie Love

What can I say about a parade of cuties?
Go read about them! A delicious parade of features.

http://dragonpoodle.blogspot.com/2019/10/mini-kennies-on-parade.html

http://mysewingmachineobsession.blogspot.com/search/label/Kenmore%20158.1040

If you ever wanted to see the interior of a sewing machine and think "I could deal with that", this is the machine for you. It's very straightforward and will accept amateur hour tinkering.

It's a parade of cuties!

Peter Lappin has a 2011 post about his

http://malepatternboldness.blogspot.com/2011/10/happiness-is-new-sewing-machine.html#more

You can search my blog on Kenmore or just see Becky here

https://erniekdesigns.blogspot.com/2014/05/vintage-sewing-vs-vintage-sewing.html

The only trouble is the bobbin pin. New bobbins won't fit on it.

And just in case you were wondering,

yes I'm working

A Summer Spa Break and Work Holiday

We are officially at the part of the summer where I'm working and photo downloading and editing is just not happening.

The Bernina has gone into the shop for it's spa treatments (and it's annoying automatic buttonhole that needs to be reprogrammed)(it is possible that I am the one that needs to be reprogrammed for the buttonhole). 

It will be back in two weeks. I hope it likes the seaweed scrub.

She purrs. I tell you, she purrs. Of all the crap used machines I've been stuck with over the years, I used all my eBay karma on this sweetheart, named for the lady who sold her to me. 

Becky the 3/4 Kenmore is back in first chair, and the Janome coverstitch is finally going to get put through it's paces to see what it can do.

And some teen sewing with mom camps are in the works.

I will mostly be on Instagram for a few weeks, as I can just snap a photo and put it up.

And I am working on longer posts as well. More pants, and more plaid button up shirts.

this is a copy of the pattern cover and the pattern was traced off and resized, as I am not a 12

collarless view B

I've been poking at this for a year. This photo is dated July 2016.

Yoinks.

See you in a couple weeks!

Vintage Sewing vs Vintage Sewing Machine, Part One

I was planning on entering the Pattern Review Vintage Sewing Contest. It is my favorite of them all.

This is Becky, the Kenmore 1040.

She is not a vintage dress pattern. She's a 1972 machine.

 

 Quite possibly the cleanest used machine I have ever bought. All the parts are in excellent shape. Timing is a little off - the needle is brushing something. This is the sort of machine you can do most of the work on yourself. A three quarter size, 1972, metal gear driven. Came with the plastic 'roses' case, all in perfect shape. She's been named Becky for the lovely woman who sold her to me. Yes, one honest sale on Ebay! We are out there! Found the manual online, found some pretty great webpages on the 1040, and am just having a wonderful time.

 Becky has a tools box and a flip out table at the end of the bed. The box covers the access to the bobbin. It rattles some; I may stuff it full of batting and put the tools elsewhere.  She came with a piping foot and a blind hem foot, but not a zipper foot; the easiest one to replace.

For every lousy sale on Ebay, there's one that makes you glad you live in such a nice world! This is that one.

little flip table and tool box  

My problem is this: the #15 bobbin of the Kenmore 1040 has a slightly larger hole (thinner material for the central tube) than the #15 bobbin of today. It's the same exterior size as the #15 and the Bernina bobbin shown on the right, but that tube is just too small for the bobbin winder pin.

So I have two bobbins I can load on this machine, and a pile from the B-word I can empty.

The BWord sucked a thread into the handwheel and I cannot safely open it to remove it. So it needs an expensive trip to the "Oh, we don't have the parts" store nearby, or a car trip vacation to the place where the guy can fix it, but not anytime soon. Becky is supposed to solve that problem. I just thought I had a little more time to get to that point.

I was planning on sewing for the Pattern Review Vintage Contest, and then taking the summer work break.

Now I may just be entering this machine in the contest. It is older than 1980.

Oh, there's more to this.  Much, much more.

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