Kit of Treadle Sewing Machine Book, Belt, Oiler with Oil, Lint Brush and Felts

Description

Kit of items for cleaning and using a treadle sewing machine. This makes a great gift for someone with a foot powered machine.
Listing includes items shown in first photo:
1. Book, Treadle Sewing Machines Clean and Use an Iron Lady, second edition, has many clear illustrations and photos. Gain the confidence to get your treadle in working order to glide as they should.
I am the author of the 60 page, m
y first edition has had many great reviews on an online shop since it was first published in 2010.
Learn this and more:
Needles
Types of machines and shuttles
Parts and descriptions
Cleaning, don't destroy gold decals
Supplies and tips
Oiling and lubricating
Tension and pressure
Installing a leather belt
Threading
How to treadle
Resources
2. Imported leather treadle sewing machine belt with clip, comes in one size, fit to your machine. Belt is 3/16 inch in diameter and 72 inches long. Includes a page of instructions I wrote with tips and clear illustrations showing how to install. Leather belts are like leather shoes, they stretch and weaken over the years so start with a new belt. When a belt starts slipping it has stretched, it needs to be shortened to be snug again but not too tight or it makes it harder to treadle.
3. Two red spool pin felts for your machine, start fresh, they get dirty and compressed over the years. Red was the standard color for the vintage machines.
4. Oiler with high quality clear sewing machine oil, oiler has a thin brass tube and cap that screws in place. Tube end dispenses a drop at a time and is thin enough to get into tight spots. Oiler can be refilled, always use clear good quality sewing machine oil.
5. The double end lint brush is used to flick out lint and dust from machine before you oil it. The round brush end works well to clean lint from the feed dog.
6. For fun you get an official “Treadle Lady Driver License.” For years I have said, "Treadles are like classic cars, take them for a Sunday drive." Yes, I drive my treadles! The proof is on YouTube. Oh, what a girl can do with a goofy idea, iMovie and her MacBook.
Some comments about my book:
"... and your book has been wonderful. I can tell that you put loads of information in the book and lots of effort into pulling it all together for others - some info that some people might not think to include, but that is extremely helpful to me and others, I'm sure."
"Very Useful!! Thanks!! Great Seller!!! "
"This is wonderful! Very nice. "
"love it, thanks!"
"This book is awesome, and is fulled with loads of wonderful information."
"This well written book is full of useful information for any treadle lover. The details are many. One of them saved two sewing machines. A neighbor was having trouble with hers and asked for my help in getting the tension properly set. It refused to sew correctly no matter what I did, including giving it a complete cleaning and oiling. It wasn't until I read one particular sentence about sewing machine needles in the book that I found the solution. The book had just arrived and I was taking a break to play my treadle. After that light-bulb moment both sewing machines worked perfectly."
My grandmother taught me to sew on her Singer treadle when I was a little girl. In 1965 a sewing machine shop teacher taught me to service my new zig-zag electric machine. She taught me how to take the race assembly apart and to clean and oil a machine and most importantly, to have no fear adjusting tensions, both on the upper thread and bobbin case. In 1999, Dick Wightman’s email list, Treadle On, helped me get over being embarrassed to say I had not used an electric machine since 1993, only a treadle. Ray White taught me the mechanical basic rules that apply to all sewing machines and how to observe the subtleties. Budd and Roy, the sewing machine guys at Budd’s Sewing Center, had more than 100 years combined experience in the industry, my collection of machines expanded from my visits to them.
In 2004 I was a guest on the HGTV Simply Quilts Show with Alex Anderson. I took three treadle sewing machines. The show aired a few times and also on the DIY channel and I was featured in a few quilt magazines after that.