The VECTOR chairperson has posted a class for Sewing Machine Maintenance for 14 Oct. Learn how to clean, oil, grease, and get your home sewing machine back in the pink of health, and save that service charge for new fabric! Win!
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Class is full! Reply here if you want to be part of the next class!
I’d love to be a part of the next class if there’s room!
You can message Amelia G on discord, and she will give you all the particulars on next steps. Welcome!
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@AmeliaG - I’d love to be in on the next class if possible. Thank you!
New here and just found this, Would love to sign up for a class - the next one or the one after that - if I still can?
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Greetings. Glad to hear you are interested in sewing machine maintenance. Do you have a sewing machine? If so, is it computerized or mechanical?
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Yay, thanks for messaging back so quickly! The answer is both bc I might have too many sewing machines… See list below. Would be grateful for the chance to learn more about maintaining either, though! Best, Peggy
Mechanical:
Singer 221 Featherweight
Singer 401A
Bernina Record 830 (just got yesterday from thrift store for $35, looks extremely well cared for but missing power cord so not sure whether it’ll be usable)
Juki MCS 15000 (coverstitch machine)
Computerized:
Janome MC9450
Brother 1034D serger
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Wow. You have a nice collection! We had just the one class so far, but it is a subject that has a lot of interest and we had 6 people with their machines in that class. That is a project under the awning of VECTOR. Vintage electric something………… anyway.
We (VECTOR) are having a work day on this coming Wednesday and that would be a good opportunity for you to get together with the chairman of that committee, Amelia Greisch. She is the force behind sewing machine maintenance and restoration at DMS, and a closet engineer. Check the Events page for all the particulars and come join us.
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Oh, awesome! I will be there. Thank you so much for the invite.
It’s great to hear there was so much interest. (This could just be my impression, but it feels like there’s something important, from a feminist standpoint, about learning these skills. The long history of folks who identify as women buying and using sewing machines and folks who mostly identify as men selling and servicing them has always made me a little sad. Anyway, that was a digression 
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Looking forward to connecting up! -P
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