Sunday 11 April 2010

Meet Cynthia

The recent good weather has made me start a little spring cleaning, which ended in a trip to the charity shop. Usually I drop off my contributions and leave, but this time I was delayed by the sight of an old hand Singer sewing machine. It was in working order, and at only £20, I just had to have her.

Here she is, in all her glory, now named Cynthia. I looked her up on the Singer website, and apparently she is a 66K model, made at Kilbowie, Clydebank, Scotland on November 15th 1930, and somewhere, she has 999,999 brothers and sisters!


She's not flashy, but for an old lady, she's a little gem. I was lucky enough to download a free manual for a 99K (similar model) from the Singer site, whcih has given me a few clues on how she works. I'm off to get some machine oil and give her a little beauty treatment!

5 comments:

sewkalico said...

Ooh you are lucky!

Contented Caroline said...

Wow, she's gorgeous. I hope you have much enjoyment together.

Catherine Evans said...

A friend of mine also picked up a Singer hand machine from a charity shop. It also cost about ehr same price. She had it serviced and fixed as the tension was all wrong but now works like a dream! Worth looking out for.

Sew Create It - Jane said...

ooh she's pretty! I bet she will sew like a dream!

Home lighting said...

Just like me not flashy but dependable!