Monday, October 26, 2015
WAR

I currently have many sewing machines, and I am researching the dates of the wars that the United States has been in, to ensure I have a sewing machine from the time period of each war.

I have been using a 1937 Singer model 15-88 for the quilts, but what I may be doing is rotating among my machines and the different time periods,  in order to reflect all of our wars, and all of our veterans. I seem to have machines from just after the wars ending, when our veterans would be coming home.

Elias Howe received the first U.S Patent for a sewing machine in 1846


-Sewing machine invented - (1846 1st U.S. Patent)
Current machines / Time periods

French and Indian War -1754 to 1763

American War of Independence or the Revolutionary War - 1775 to 1783

War of 1812 -1812 to 1815

First Seminole War -1816 to 1819

Second Seminole War -1835 to 1842

Texas Revolution -October 2, 1835 to April 21, 1836

Mexican-American War 1846 to 1847

Third Seminole War -1855 to 1858.
War Between The States (American Civil War) - 1861 to 1865
Spanish-American War - 1898
Philippine-American War 1899 to 1902
1891 White VS IIb Treadle Head
1901 White Family Rotary Treadle Head


-World War I - 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918
1916 Singer 66-1 "Red-Eye" back-clamp Treadle Head (with handcrank, 66-3)

-World War II - 1939 to 1945
1934 Singer 99-13 electric (Gram's machine, sewed Mom's baby clothes, separate)-converted to handcrank
1937 Singer 15-88 Treadle Head (with handcrank)

-Korean War  - 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953
1952 Singer 15-91 electric - Dad gave me, he served in Korean War

-Vietnam War - 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975
1959 Singer Spartan (used as a handcrank machine)

Two  1968-1972 Singer Model 237s

-Operation Urgent Fury was a 1983 United States Invasion of Grenada
1984 Singer 6212C Electric

-Gulf War - Iraq - 2 August 1990 to 28 February 1991
-War In Afghanistan -  7 October 2001 to 28 December 2014
-War in Afghanistan - 2014 to present
-Military Intervention Against ISIS / ISIL - 2014 to present

-I used a Singer Model 6012 for the years 1989 to 2005, but no longer have it.
-Portable Mini Sewing Machine (HandyStitch or Singer Stitch Sew Quick) - plastic and electric - will represent wives, husbands and children who might be doing their own mending when their service person was or is away on duty. At the least, it will be used to sew labels or an American Flag patch to the quilts. I may be using the American Flag patches as labels - solidarity from the family of one veteran to another veteran.

-2015-2016 Brother LX3014 electric sewing machine
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1931 White Model 31 donated to a new owner in honor of my father's generosity.
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I also currently have:

1950s Gateway Junior Model NP-1 (toy machine)
Five 1953-1955 Singer Model 20s
1 1930s Singer Model 20
12 1950s-present hand-held sewing machines, made in China
5  1950s Dexter hand-held sewing machines, made in the USA
2015-2016 Brother LX3014
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