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Tutorial: Cleaning an older sewing machine

January 22, 2012 by Anne Weaver

Older sewing machines are fairly easy to find at thrift stores and yard sales.  They’re usually inexpensive, but they may need some TLC.  Sew Delish shows how to clean an older sewing machine to get them running at their best again.  Get the tutorial.

[photo form Sew Delish]

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Comments

  1. Dois Olsen says

    January 23, 2012 at 8:17 am

    Website, sewdelish, was blocked as bad. Wanted to view tutorial on vintage machines.

    • anneweaver says

      January 24, 2012 at 2:44 pm

      My computer isn’t showing this as a dangerous site. I’m able to load it without difficulty. But if your computer is saying that it’s a bad site, then I’d avoid it. –Anne

  2. SewDelish says

    March 30, 2012 at 3:58 am

    I am a little behind on seeing this but wanted so say Thank you Craft Gossip for posting a link to my tutorial for cleaning old sewing machines.

    Dois – I am sorry you had problems with viewing my blog. It was down for maintenance for a short while as blogger had somehow accidentally lost some of my posts. This may possibly have been the reason for the problem you had viewing my tutorial at that time.

    I can assure you that I do not deliberately or knowingly have questionable content or comments on my blog as my young daughter and her friends spend time reading it. They love clicking on the links, So I like to keep my blog as safe as I can for children and adults to read. Feel free to email me if you have any further issues.

    regards

    SewDelish

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