My eighth and favorite machine

Here's my favorite machine and the one that I hope to never part with. This is a Singer 66 treadle in a parlor cabinet and is almost identical to the one on which I learned to sew. It was gifted to me by my online quilting buddy after she double-dared me to travel 2400 miles to "show up on her doorstep". (BTW, she is very good at double-dares and has gotten me into several of quilting adventures with her DDs.) If I had to give up all my other machines I could happily sew anything I needed to sew on this machine. It has a host of gizmo-like attachments that allow one to make wonderful special stitches. If you've seen the fancy-seamed pin-tucked blouses of the early 1900s you should know that the women of that time were able to sew every stitch on their treadle machines with those attachments. I call this machine "Elizabeth Red-Eye". The red-eye is a name fondly used by collectors to denote the fancy scrollwork. The "Elizabeth" was added by my quilting buddy in memory of a previous-generational family member. It is quite appropriate for that name is also my grandmother's name. One of these days I am going to do some more stitching on this machine, just as soon as I get aroundtuit. I have to add that along with the sewing aspect...I simply love the mechanical workings of vintage machines. They are just tooo coool.