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   Here's a story from another one of our sellers, Linda, at http:/   
   sewing-machine-manuals.com   
      
   "My grandmother started teaching me to sew, knit, crochet, cross stitch and   
   more when I was less than five years old.  I absolutely loved to sew and   
   constantly asked to use her sewing machine.  She was widowed at a very young   
   age and 4 of her 5 children were still at home.  My mother being the oldest   
   one had married and CÇ£left the nest.CÇØ Her second husband, who was the only   
   grandfather that I ever knew, bought her a brand new 1935 electric, cabinet   
   model, sewing machine when they got married.  It was SingerCÇÖs top of the   
   line, a model 201 and she always said that it was, CÇ£Too good to use.CÇØ   
      
   When she passed I purchased her well used Singer model 66 red eye sewing   
   machine.  It was still in its treadle base but they had added a motor to it   
   and her Singer model 201.  I now had three sewing machines and preferred her   
   Singer 201.  ItCÇÖs sewing motion is simply as smooth as silk.  That machine   
   is now about 80 years old and other than the cleaning and oiling that they and   
   we give it, it has never needed servicing and I do use it frequently.   
      
   I continued going to garage sales, estate sales and auctions and simply   
   couldnCÇÖt leave a sewing machine or sewing related item behind and of course   
   I started picking up some things to use and especially to decorate with.  We   
   also fell in love with antiques. Forty plus years later I still love the   
   vintage sewing machines and use them instead of the modern plastic wonders.    
   In my opinion the machines that are being produced today will be in the   
   landfills and these great old, all metal sewing machines with proper care and   
   storage will still be sewing even 100 years from now.   
      
   I accumulated sewing related items including lots and lots of manuals for them   
   and even some repair information, mainly when the local sewing machine repair   
   guy passed on.  At his estate auction we bought his file cabinets which were   
   full of repair information. I also bought his needles, bobbins, etc.  When the   
   auctioneer came to the plastic cabinets that they were so carefully sorted in   
   and lovingly labeled, he took the drawers out of the cabinets and dumped the   
   contents of them into a box.  I could have screamed   
   CÇ£No!CÇØ when he was emptying those plastic cabinets.  Well, he   
   auctioned those empty plastic cabinets off and then asked for a bid on the box   
   of junk.  Well, I was as mad as an old wet hen but, I bought that box of   
   sewing machine parts, needles, etc.   
      
   We couldnCÇÖt get the file cabinets into our car so we emptied them out and   
   left the file cabinets behind.  Fifteen years later we are still sorting   
   through both the paperwork from that auction and the needles and parts and   
   identifying and entering them into our database and the site.  Well, this is   
   becoming the story of the development of our site in TIAS.  I will add that   
   they wouldnCÇÖt let us start selling reproductions of sewing machine manuals   
   until we had permission to do that.  So, we paid an attorney and he got that   
   permission for us to reproduce them back in 1997.  Yes, we have been in TIAS   
   that long.   
      
   We now have a catalogued selection of over 3,000 different sewing machine   
   manuals and some repairing information.  This information goes from as far   
   back as the 1850CÇÖs and includes many fairly recent manuals.  Only about   
   two-thirds of them are in the site so I still have many more items to get   
   entered and if you donCÇÖt find the manual that you want listed in the site,   
   please email me, Linda at Relics and ask if we have it.  Or if it is in the   
   site and not available in the PDF / downloadable format, again email me and   
   ICÇÖll put your request at the top of our CÇ£to do listCÇØ and have my husband   
   scan it.  He does a fantastic job and is the one who makes this a we instead   
   of an CÇ£ICÇÖllCÇØ do it business.  ICÇÖm just the one on the computer."   
      
   To view the images she provided, please visit: http://on.fb.me/1vSPhr2   
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