Wet Sunday Afternoon

One of my collection of sewing machines. This one was made in Clydebank  in 1947.  It's a Singer 201, otherwise known as 'The Back-breaker' - and if you try to lift it, you understand why, it is solid cast-iron. It only does plain straight stitches, but it does them to perfection. 

The original owner was the mother of a friend. I'm not much for naming machines, but I think of this one as 'Nancy'.

She has been waiting for a thorough strip-down and clean up, and today was the perfect, miserable wet day for it. Hopefully she'll become my main machine for piecing patchwork, and her predecessor (another 201, but not so pretty) will be going to a refugee camp in Lebanon where these indestructible old workhorses are put to good use.