Please meet "Miss Hippie Girl"!

Miss Hippie Girl is an early 1970's Pfaff Extra. I got her for 15 EUR (16.5 $) on eBay local about two years ago. 

She came without her manual and I couldn't find any, but I found out that she had an identical twin, the "Kayser 46". Manuals for that machine are available on the internet. 

Pfaff bought Kayser in the late sixties. They kept the brand name for several years. 

In 1970 Pfaff wanted to become more attractive to younger customers. They took the Kayser 46 sewing machine (which already was a Pfaff and only had the brand name "Kayser"), painted it orange and sold it for less money as "Pfaff Extra". 

Later in the Seventies the same machine, painted grey, was also sold as "Pfaff 204" through mail order companies like "Quelle". 

The machine body is aluminium and it has a strong motor. It's one of the last metal built Pfaff sewing machines that was made in Germany before Pfaff (like many other sewing companies) began to distribute plastic machines that are made in China.

Isn't she a real 1970's Hippie Girl in her orange skirt?

A German Torpedo

Under my needle tonight:
String blocks. 

☝🏻Two string blocks a day will keep the mess in the sewing room away. 

Tonight I'm treadling on my 1937 Haid & Neu "Torpedo", sewing some strings into blocks in order to keep the mess in the box under the cutting table away. 

Do Americans know "Haid & Neu"? This manufacturer from Southern Germany produced Singer machines after World War II. 

After the War the former Singer sewing machine factory in Wittenberg was in the eastern communist part of Germany. The Russians stripped all the machinery. By the way, that's the reason why Singer machines with a serial number beginning with C-.... can't be dated exactly. They are all built between 1908 and 1939. All the papers from the Wittenberg factory had been lost, too. 

After the war Haid & Neu produced Singer Machines, but still made Haid & Neu machines, too. The factory was taken over by Singer in 1958 and Singer 431G was made there. 

1982 Singer closed this factory.

☝🏻Please keep that information on German sewing machine history in mind. There will be a test!