Tales of a Treadler - in the Beginning

Well, It feels funny to start a blog. I've always thought of blogs as being for the 'wild' crowd, but I guess not! Now that I'm here, I don't know what to say, so I guess I will just see how this turns out.
I should be busy listing items on ebay, but am having 'fibro fog' today, and really want to be sewing, but guess that will wait for another day. I have a 'new' sewing machine, it is called a Home Maker (imagine me having a machine with that name on it! LOL)and has 9 decorative stitches, a blind stitch, and has a built in buttonholer that does a nice buttonhole. Not sure how old it is, I'm guessing 1970's, anyway it is brown and beige, will have to take pics and show them. Of course, I took the motor off, and stuck it in a treadle cabinet, but love having that built in light, and have it, and my Davis VF facing each other in the middle of my kitchen! Shoved the table off to the corner, and it is piled down with thread and fabric. The only time I ever use it is when a friend stops by and we sit in the kitchen and drink coffee, and I usually eat at my computer.
When I got it, almost nothing worked on it, but I've got it going pretty well now. Still having a bit of a tension problem, but I think that is exacerbated by the fact that I've been using all kinds of thread in it, as I've been playing around doing freemotion embroidery on it. It does a pretty good job of it, and I may keep it just for that purpose, although I do like the fact that I can use the blind stitch to buttonhole stitch my appliques down. I will have to compare the stitch with the one on my Dressmaker and see which I like best, the only problem with that is the Dressmaker uses cams to make the decorative stitches, and it doesn't treadle as nicely as the Home Maker does!
We will see, nothing is cast in stone, so can change my mind anytime I feel like it!