i bought a treadle!!

thanks! that is nice to know

and a fun thing to do when young though I have a closed cabinet round my
machine so that is not possible ( and I'm glad I do as my kids are as nosy
as anything!)

--
Jessamy
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos
In The Netherlands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I use those needles in my newer Pfaff machine so you should not have any
problem getting them.
I too learnt to sew on a treadle when I was 3. My mum used to have
rheumatism very bad in her feet and she would sit me the other side the
machine and yell me when to pedal.
My treat was afterwards to sew on paper with no threads in. I started
hemming handkerchiefs at the age of five and started making my own
dresses when I was nine.
Shirley





In message , Jessamy
writes
I learnt to sew on a treadle a long, long time ago that and a handcrank
was all they had at the local village school in east Sussex

it does have a needle I will take it to the local shop tomorrow (as it's
belting with rain right now) the book says *only* use Pfaff system 705 R
needles and I haven't been able to find any online

Yep the furniture waltz and also the toybox jive - I am amazed at how many
toys were lurking everywhere... I am culling the toys to one box each
downstairs and the rest upstairs - and if I am lucky I won't hurt my feet
as
often (har, har) but no kitchen steps and no soft chairs this time round

The bin is overflowing and usable/saleable stuff is going into the garage
as
I think I will have enough stuff to make ebay an option anything that
doesn't sell is off to the same place I got my treadle.

I will join treadleon later on this month as I have a huge deadline to meet
and I know I will spend hours trawling the list when I do get there... that
will be my reward for getting the king quilt made and off to the quilters

thanks

--
Jessamy
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos
In The Netherlands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good lass! Another People Powered Machine finds a loving home!

It's a Pfaff 30 treadle and it even still had the instruction book with
it!!
and the bobbin has thread in it of undetermined age.. it's dusty and
grubby
and the cupboard it's in has been repaired on one leg (with bolts) so it
needs a bit of TLC and some wax on the wood but that will happen before
too
long.
Does anyone know which needles fit this machine?

Does it have a needle in it? If so, then you can take it to the sewing
supplies shop as a sample. It shopuld also tell you in the instruction
book.

First I have to make proper space for it to go in my sewing corner of the
living room. I have had to move the china cupboard to the kitchen (after
taking down half the storage rack there first) then move the bookcase to
the place where the china cupboard was so the treadle can sit next to my
sewing table. The dining table has also had to be turned from the longest
side to the wall to the shortest side to the wall

Ah, the Great Furniture Waltz, coupled with The Dance of The Dining
Table! Did you also have to do the Kitchen Steps Hop and The Soft Chair
Shuffle?

I also have found a LOT of junk while I was at it (I'm half done ) that
I
will have to deal with.

Freecycle/charity shop for the stuff you no longer want but is useable,
trip to the tip for the rest! Be brutal - it pays off in the end!

And join Treadle On - the home of People P{owered Sewing!
http://www.treadleon.net



--
Shirley Shone

If you cannot get the needles please contact me and I can send you some
Shirley




In message , Jessamy
writes
the ones I found that are almost similar are big bucks too but I suspect
that the people at the recycle shop are clueless about the value of such a
machine - the prices they had on other stuff was more realistic.

But hey I'm not complaining!


--
Shirley Shone

Jessamy wrote:

I learnt to sew on a treadle a long, long time ago that and a handcrank
was all they had at the local village school in east Sussex

it does have a needle I will take it to the local shop tomorrow (as it's
belting with rain right now) the book says *only* use Pfaff system 705 R
needles and I haven't been able to find any online

705 are standard needles, and the ones in the Pfaff packet are made by -
guess who? Yup, Schmetz! Any ole Schmetz/Klasse/Rhein standars 705
will do just fine!

Yep the furniture waltz and also the toybox jive - I am amazed at how many
toys were lurking everywhere... I am culling the toys to one box each
downstairs and the rest upstairs - and if I am lucky I won't hurt my feet as
often (har, har) but no kitchen steps and no soft chairs this time round

Good - keep it simple if you can!

The bin is overflowing and usable/saleable stuff is going into the garage as
I think I will have enough stuff to make ebay an option anything that
doesn't sell is off to the same place I got my treadle.

Good move!

I will join treadleon later on this month as I have a huge deadline to meet
and I know I will spend hours trawling the list when I do get there... that
will be my reward for getting the king quilt made and off to the quilters

yay! Built in rewards!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

thanks !!!

--
Jessamy
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos
In The Netherlands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you cannot get the needles please contact me and I can send you some
Shirley

cool now that is customer service having the same needles freely available
after all these years :-D ( I will double check my stock just in case I
already have some hehehe)

the downside of small kids is the toys downstairs.. I will be so glad when
they are both old enough to play upstairs!

I thrive on built in rewards - the main one for the king is that *I* don't
have to quilt it .. I can make the top and hand it over and I will get a
beautiful quilt back with just the binding left to do. Boy I love this "job"

--
Jessamy
www.geocities.com/jess_ayad
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos
In The Netherlands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I learnt to sew on a treadle a long, long time ago that and a handcrank
was all they had at the local village school in east Sussex

it does have a needle I will take it to the local shop tomorrow (as it's
belting with rain right now) the book says *only* use Pfaff system 705 R
needles and I haven't been able to find any online

705 are standard needles, and the ones in the Pfaff packet are made by -
guess who? Yup, Schmetz! Any ole Schmetz/Klasse/Rhein standars 705
will do just fine!

Yep the furniture waltz and also the toybox jive - I am amazed at how many
toys were lurking everywhere... I am culling the toys to one box each
downstairs and the rest upstairs - and if I am lucky I won't hurt my feet
as
often (har, har) but no kitchen steps and no soft chairs this time round

Good - keep it simple if you can!

The bin is overflowing and usable/saleable stuff is going into the garage
as
I think I will have enough stuff to make ebay an option anything that
doesn't sell is off to the same place I got my treadle.

Good move!

I will join treadleon later on this month as I have a huge deadline to
meet
and I know I will spend hours trawling the list when I do get there...
that
will be my reward for getting the king quilt made and off to the quilters

yay! Built in rewards!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

In article ,
"Jessamy" wrote:

Yesterday I was dragged to the recycle centre by my sister in a quest for a
cheap chest of drawers - they didn't have any... what they did have was a
working treadle! and as the price was right - 15 euros I bought it

It's a Pfaff 30 treadle and it even still had the instruction book with it!!
and the bobbin has thread in it of undetermined age.. it's dusty and grubby
and the cupboard it's in has been repaired on one leg (with bolts) so it
needs a bit of TLC and some wax on the wood but that will happen before too
long.
Does anyone know which needles fit this machine?

First I have to make proper space for it to go in my sewing corner of the
living room. I have had to move the china cupboard to the kitchen (after
taking down half the storage rack there first) then move the bookcase to
the place where the china cupboard was so the treadle can sit next to my
sewing table. The dining table has also had to be turned from the longest
side to the wall to the shortest side to the wall

I also have found a LOT of junk while I was at it (I'm half done ) that I
will have to deal with.


Congratulations, Jessamy! That's are real find! I know *nothing*
about treadles, except that some people collect them, but I know they're
really cool!
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education

My friend just had a treadle sewing machine given to her I am wanting to
help her find the belt for it. Have you found where to shop for the belt
for a treadle?
Taffy

"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
...
Jessamy wrote:

I learnt to sew on a treadle a long, long time ago that and a handcrank
was all they had at the local village school in east Sussex

it does have a needle I will take it to the local shop tomorrow (as it's
belting with rain right now) the book says *only* use Pfaff system 705 R
needles and I haven't been able to find any online

705 are standard needles, and the ones in the Pfaff packet are made by -
guess who? Yup, Schmetz! Any ole Schmetz/Klasse/Rhein standars 705
will do just fine!

Yep the furniture waltz and also the toybox jive - I am amazed at how many
toys were lurking everywhere... I am culling the toys to one box each
downstairs and the rest upstairs - and if I am lucky I won't hurt my feet
as
often (har, har) but no kitchen steps and no soft chairs this time round

Good - keep it simple if you can!

The bin is overflowing and usable/saleable stuff is going into the garage
as
I think I will have enough stuff to make ebay an option anything that
doesn't sell is off to the same place I got my treadle.

Good move!

I will join treadleon later on this month as I have a huge deadline to
meet
and I know I will spend hours trawling the list when I do get there...
that
will be my reward for getting the king quilt made and off to the quilters

yay! Built in rewards!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

You lucky duckies! I didn't end up winning the Singer 66 I was going for -
went too far over what I was going to spend (got up to $380). Probably
still a bargain but I wasn't 100% happy with it so I wasn't going to pay it.
Now I could have cried because there was a 1910 singer I could have had
(another 66) in 99% perfect condition for $300 but I had nowhere to put
her - she was just too big. But oh my!

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)

"Trudy Utterback" wrote in message
...
My friend just had a treadle sewing machine given to her I am wanting to
help her find the belt for it. Have you found where to shop for the belt
for a treadle?
Taffy

"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
...
Jessamy wrote:

I learnt to sew on a treadle a long, long time ago that and a
handcrank
was all they had at the local village school in east Sussex

it does have a needle I will take it to the local shop tomorrow (as it's
belting with rain right now) the book says *only* use Pfaff system 705 R
needles and I haven't been able to find any online

705 are standard needles, and the ones in the Pfaff packet are made by -
guess who? Yup, Schmetz! Any ole Schmetz/Klasse/Rhein standars 705
will do just fine!

Yep the furniture waltz and also the toybox jive - I am amazed at how
many
toys were lurking everywhere... I am culling the toys to one box each
downstairs and the rest upstairs - and if I am lucky I won't hurt my
feet
as
often (har, har) but no kitchen steps and no soft chairs this time round

Good - keep it simple if you can!

The bin is overflowing and usable/saleable stuff is going into the
garage
as
I think I will have enough stuff to make ebay an option anything that
doesn't sell is off to the same place I got my treadle.

Good move!

I will join treadleon later on this month as I have a huge deadline to
meet
and I know I will spend hours trawling the list when I do get there...
that
will be my reward for getting the king quilt made and off to the
quilters

yay! Built in rewards!

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

I got my belt from this site just a few weeks ago. Hope this helps.
http://www.wordsetc.com/treadle.htm

Karen, Queen of Squishies

My friend just had a treadle sewing machine given to her I am wanting to
help her find the belt for it. Have you found where to shop for the belt
for a treadle?
Taffy

Taffy,
Ask your local SM dealers. Their technicians will probably have a
belt or three on hand, or will order for you. My LQS is a dealer
for Pfaff and for Bernina. The tech services the high end
computer models, and Treadles, and stuff in between. There is an
advantage to supporting local business! NAYY.
PAT

Trudy Utterback wrote:

My friend just had a treadle sewing machine given to her I am wanting to
help her find the belt for it. Have you found where to shop for the belt
for a treadle?
Taffy