What’s that gadget?
![Singercraft fringe guide](https://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-1024x768.jpg)
![Singercraft fringe guide full view](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-full-view-300x176.jpg)
Husband brought home a sewing gadget from the op shop (yes, the same shop that had the Lutterloh books). A Singercraft accessory of some sort, found amongst the zips in the Haberdashery section. It looked to be a similar vintage to my sewing machine.
![Singercraft fringe guide with bag and manual](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-with-bag-and-manual-300x225.jpg)
It was in a bag with a manual. It’s a gadget for making fringing out of wool, which you could use it to make rugs.
![Singercraft fringe guide to use 1](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-to-use-1-300x176.jpg)
The manual promised no special skills were required and that it was so simple and effective, so I had a go. I began by winding wool around the guide…
![Singercraft fringe guide to use 3](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-to-use-3-300x225.jpg)
Then I placed the guide with the wool under the foot of my sewing machine to stitch. If I was making a braid I could stitch it on a length of tape, to sew later onto other fabric.
![Singercraft fringe guide to use 5](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-to-use-5-300x225.jpg)
When I was nearly at the end, I pulled the guide towards me. There’s a blade (that you can’t see very well) that cuts the loops of wool to form the fringe. The blade can be removed for loopy braid instead of fringing.
![Singercraft fringe guide to use 9](http://lizhaywood.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Singercraft-fringe-guide-to-use-9-300x121.jpg)
I made a second row above the first, hiding the stitching. For a rug, you would make rows and rows of these.
I have one for sale also a 1957 sewing .a home t it’s very clean and sew great selling I need the room
Curious: did you ever use it much, Joann?