The Vintage Singer Featherweight: What’s All the Hype?
2018年12月26日 · As with any vintage Singer sewing machine, you can find its approximate date of production (and factory location) at the Singer Sewing Machine Serial Number Database. If the Featherweight has one disadvantage, it’s the limited harp space (the working area to the right of the sewing needle), which means it’s not ideal for bulky projects like ...
Singer Featherweight C240 offers Both Style and Substance
2018年4月23日 · The Singer Featherweight certainly has a good amount of bang for its buck. It comes with six presser feet and features a drop-in bobbin. The machine weighs nearly 15 pounds because of its solid metal frame, but it is still manageable to travel with.
The Virtues of a Vintage Straight-Stitch Sewing Machine
2018年9月26日 · I absolutely love my vintage Singer Featherweight 221. I use it for all the time and love all the attachments. I teach costume making at a university and we use straight stitch industrials but also have a Singer 20U33 industrial that does both straight and zigzag. I work all my bar tacks and buttonholes on it. The featherweight is my Home machine.
This IS Your Grandmother's Sewing Machine - Threads
2011年5月12日 · My first experience with sewing was on an old Singer Featherweight. When my mother bought a new Singer with cams and fancy stitches I asked for my own sewing machine and got a Little Girl's Singer for Christmas. I learned to sew on a small hand cranked machine that skidded all over the table. It wasn't easy, but that didn't deter me.
What Sewing Machine Do You Use? - Threads
2013年12月17日 · I have a Bernina 440 sewing machine and a Bernina 1300MDA serger and overstitch machine. I have several antique Singer such as the Singer 15-90, 15-91, 360 and singer 66. My main sewing machine is my Bernina 440 sewing machine and it sews beautifully.
What sewing machine are you using? - Threads
2020年2月25日 · The 930 is my regular machine but I also use a Singer 201 for topstitching and a Singer 15-91 with a buttonholer for buttonholes when I'm using heavier weight fabric and a Brother Inovis-40 for blouse/dress weight buttonholes. To round out the stable I have a Viking serger for knits and seam finishing and a Singer Featherweight for travelling.
Identifying Vintage Sewing Machines - Threads
2012年12月5日 · Using this identification form, I narrowed my Singer’s model down to 27/28 or 127/128. Based on certain factors, I think it’s most likely a model 127/128. Sandman Collectibles also offers many vintage Singer machine user manuals for sale. Another very helpful resource is blogger Nicholas Rain Noe’s “The Vintage Singer Sewing Machine ...
How old were you when you learned to use a sewing machine?
2020年1月16日 · When I was 10 I got a Singer Sewhandy for Christmas. It was a toy-sized chainstitch machine. I immediately started making doll clothes and tea towels with it. Within six months I was frustrated because I couldn't do what I wanted to do with so small a machine. Mom started me sewing on her Singer Featherweight and I never turned back.
Vintage Sewing Machines Were Built to Last a Lifetime
2018年8月2日 · Most were straight-stitch machines, designed before the introduction of the now-ubiquitous zigzag. They were also easy to maintain: regular oiling with sewing machine oil, a little de-linting, and they were good to go. The virtues of vintage. I purchased my first vintage sewing machine, an early 1980s all-metal Kenmore, on eBay.
Mystery Sewing Machine Foot - Threads
2009年9月1日 · This looks very much like one of the early 50's complicated add-on sewing attachments that came with my Aunt Ruby's brand new Necchi "top of the line" sewing machine--one of the new exports from a post-WWII Germany. Ruby bought every attachment they offered. My Gram had taught me to sew when I was about 7 on her old Treadle Singer Sewing Machine.