"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:12:30 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> > wrote:
>
>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>
>>>> Back in the day I had a Singer treadle machine. Those things never
>>>> went
>>>> wrong and were so easy to thread. For years, machines would be
>>>> threaded
>>>> in the same way, but Not This One! Trouble is that I use it so rarely
>>>> now
>>>> I have to look it up how to thread the blessed things. After so many
>>>> years it gets ingrained in your head how to thread ...
>>>
>>> My mom got a new machine years ago but never did figure out how to
>>> thread
>>> it. She even attended a class to learn how to use it. She wound up
>>> getting
>>> rid of it.
>>
>>hmmmmmm....
>
> Yep...
> Bove in troll mode again.

No. My mom is now pretty much blind. That had been going on for years.
Far longer than she let on to me. Most likely the parts that she had to put
the thread through were just too small and/or dark for her to see. I dunno.
I never tried to thread it.