Making Sewing Disability Accessible
I am making my machines more accessible for disabilities, perhaps as an example, perhaps as an awareness campaign, perhaps someday to have a sewing group for the disabled, that makes Quilts For Veterans.. My 99-13 can be a knee bar, electric removable motor or a handcrank. My 237s and Spartan can be removable motor, treadle (not the Spartan), or handcrank with the Bishop Sewing Systems handcrank. The 15-91 will be electric or Bishop Sewing Systems handcrank. The 66-1 and 15-88 can be treadle, handcrank or removable motor. Each machine can be adapted to a certain need within 15 minutes or so. I have two modern electrics and two Whites that currently can only be treadles or removable motor (set us for treadle right now). The Bishop Sewing Systems Handcrank:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SINGER-15-sewing-machine-Model-15-And-Model-66-Hand-Crank/163750875941?hash=item2620501325:g:OiYAAOSw4CFYpGHP
(these allow one stitch per turn) I encourage people to read the names of the MIA from their state and write their Congress Representative or Senators or both.
https://www.dpaa.mil/Our-Missing/Korean-War/Korean-War-POW-MIA-List/ Read Their Names Bring Them Home is a current project of mine. Thank A Vet, Never Forget. It is no coincidence that the theme song from M.A.S.H. (The Korean War ) is called "Suicide is Painless"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDon7lYhV8s
-Veteran's Crisis Line is 1-800-273-8255 22 suicides a day by Veterans is 22 too many. For the current moderators on TreadleOn, it's not my problem you thought the subject of disability access in sewing was unpleasant. Life is Fragile. I joined TreadleOn in 1999. It was founded by Dick Wightman, to promote the USE of treadles and handcranks. My Dad couldn't navigate the list, so I also asked his questions about his machines, mainly from the 1870s through 1920s. When he couldn't work on his jeeps like those he drove in Service (under fire the whole time), he worked on sewing machines. I left TreadleOn on February 6, 2020. I'll walk with my Dad over ignorance any day. Thank you Dick Wightman, Capt. Dick, for helping myself and my father for 21 years. https://groups.io/g/Treadleon I need to: buy two Bishop handcranks, buy a feed dog cover plate for the Whites. I already found a vintage free motion foot for a , YES, back-clamping 66-1! Long live sewing for everyone.
I also have handheld stitchers, for piecing. I could potentially have 11 people on large machines and 17 people hand-piecing with handhelds, and 6 more on model 20s. That would be 34 people working to honor Veterans, including me. For a list of all our Wars and my machines:
https://quiltsforveterans.blogspot.com/search/label/War
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