ABOUT US

Carmen Morreale, C.J’s Sewing Machine Service’s Master Technician

Carmen started repairing sewing machines at a very young age…. As the story goes his father Vincent Morreale (founder of Mor Real Sewing Machine Centers) gave Carmen a toy tool kit for his 8th Christmas. Carmen proceeded to take all the screws out of the kitchen chairs. When his mother (who was carrying his sister) sat in the chair; it collapsed to the floor. It is then that Carmen started his sewing machine repairing career, with his mother’s command to take him to the sewing machine shop. So at 8 years old he started to learn how to clean and disassemble sewing machines.

In 1967 Carmen and his family traveled to Husqvarna Sweden to the Viking Sewing Machine Factory. There Carmen met with the head engineers and gave them suggestions for repair procedure improvements and improvements in their new models. He holds a special commendation given by the Husqvarna Factory,
for technical design and repair procedure improvements introduced at the Viking factory.

• He was responsible for introducing Bernina Sewing Machines to the New England area in the early 1970s, and his sale organization was number 1 in the New England area 3 years running.
• He set up and trained the repair technician for the largest independent repair facility on the East Coast, Mor Real Sewing Machine Centers, in fact his Repair Center earned the “Best Of Boston for Sewing Machine Repairs” recognition in Boston Magazine in 1989.
• He has been trained in both the US and Europe, and is Certified in Bernina, Viking, Elna, Janome/New Home, Pfaff, and Babylock machines repairs.
• He has specialized expertise in sergers, older and vintage machines.
• He has given seminars on sewing machines and how they work to local chapters of Quilting and Sewing Guilds.
• Carmen offers seminars on “Needles and Threads,” “A Peek Inside Your Machine,” “The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Sewing Machine, “and “Why Does It Do That?” to local sewing groups.