VERNON -- A sewing machine is like a good car. If you take it in for regular tune-ups, it will last for decades, said Jon Lasslett. Lasslett recently was examining the gears inside a 1972 Singer ...

"Right from one of the first Singer machines. I have computerized machines, a fur machine, antique machines, a Singer, a Brother, industrial machines, you name it," she says. Unfortunately, all of ...