Volume 11 , Issue 45

Treadling Tip On A Singer

Nola Wilkerson says, "The way I learned to treadle ? at home and at school ? was to put one foot (toe part) toward top of treadle on one side, the other foot toward the bottom, then push with first one foot, then the other. Like stepping with the toe part of your foot: left/right,left/right.

"Putting both feet, or either foot, on the treadle with instep in the middle seems to me would be "murder" on your feet and legs. I never used the heels at all. Try it and let me know how it works! If you get that machine going backward instead of forward, it immediately breaks the thread; and, if I remember correctly, I think it breaks the needle, too."
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