Oil and Thread

A warm, sunny, afternoon near the end of May I had just nipped out of the office to buy some milk and a sandwich.  Next to the supermarket ...

I have decided to start my sewing year with a quilt.  I've spent quite a while thinking about what I want to do with fabrics I already h...

One day early last autumn I got out the Singer 15K80 to do a quick job sewing some furnishing weight chintz.  The cotton thread I used was p...

This handsome little machine is my Singer 28K.  It was my first and it was this machine that got me started on sewing.  On it I sewed my fir...

Another new arrival at Oil and Thread.  Oops.  I'm sorry.  I didn't mean to do it.  I couldn't help it.  She was a local beauty...

Here is the needle of the Singer 401G set up with the general purposes presser foot and throat plate.  This is how the machine was when it ...

Introducing: "The SLANT-O-MATIC - the greatest sewing machine ever built!" Well that's what Singer told new owners ...