an intro and a question

[crafting-change.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm new to the group, and I have a question or two.
Primarily I'm a writer, self publishing poetry chapbooks, and working on a zine.
I also cook, embroider, hand sew and make jewelry from time to time. Recently I got some knitting supplies, with all of the press it had been getting, it reminded me of my grandmother and how she'd knit these great afghans for my cousins and I. Currently I need to get some really basic patterns for scarves, anyone got any?

Also...does anyone know where I could get free instructions on a 1961 singer sewing machine? I haven't threaded a bobbin for oh...10 years, I have this great sewing machine, but I'm afraid to use it!