Chain Stitching

More from the Tractor Show in Eagleville this past week-end.....

One of the coolest things I saw all day (maybe the coolest!) was this Willcox & Gibbs hand-crank, belt-driven, chain-stitch sewing machine produced in 1880.

It was owned and operated by Mrs. Douglas, who is a collector of such things.

The other cool thing about meeting the Douglas couple was that her husband had his single-hit-and-miss motors on display and that she, unlike most of the rest of the wive's or girlfriend's who were just hanging out, had her own thing going on, and it was something that they shared. Doesn't get much better than that.