Abstract: A child's sewing machine having a frame including a work-supporting bed, a vertical standard projecting upwardly therefrom adjacent one end of said bed, a hollow bracket arm extending horizontally from said standard longitudinally above the bed and terminating in a sewing head, said bracket arm having a through aperture formed therein adapted to accommodate a veriical spool pin providing rotatable support for a thread supply for a thread carrying needle, said frame further carrying stitch sewing instrumentalities including a thread carrying needle. An adapter plate is secured to the bracket arm and has provision for a horizontal spool pin thereon and an upstanding thread guide.