It even made a motorcycle seat! The motor in a standard sewing machine for home use is pretty small — about the size of a fist. Even the motor in my “heavy duty” Singer 4452, which is ...

That’s how we feel about sewing machines. Sure, there’s a motor. There’s a needle and some thread. But how does the machine make a stitch? We always wondered, but after watching a recent ...

and the family recently decided that her collection of sewing machines — which filled a small house on the family’s farm near Brock, Nebrasks — needed to find new homes.