The Vintage Singer Featherweight: What’s All the Hype?
Dec 26, 2018 · The case adds a few pounds to the machine’s weight but keeps the machine dust-free and secure. The Featherweight is also powerful. Despite sporting a 0.4-amp motor, it’s capable of everything a full-size vintage straight-stitch sewing machine can do. Best of all, perhaps, is it’s virtually silent and extremely smooth.
The Virtues of a Vintage Straight-Stitch Sewing Machine
Sep 26, 2018 · 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.
Singer Featherweight C240 offers Both Style and Substance
Apr 23, 2018 · Stylish and Reliable Singer Featherweight C240 | Notions. The Singer Featherweight C240 is easy to thread and offers a breath of fresh air in casing design. I loved the look of the Singer Featherweight C240 right out of the box. It didn’t resemble the typical angular sewing machine, and I felt that it was a breath of fresh air in casing design.
Vintage Sewing Machines Were Built to Last a Lifetime
Aug 2, 2018 · 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.
Vintage Sewing Tools: The Singer Bound Buttonhole Maker
Jul 25, 2017 · Turn the the buttonhole lips through the buttonhole opening to the wrong side, abutting the lips’ folded edges neatly. Press. Using the Singer adjustable zipper foot, sew the triangle ends to finish the ends of the buttonhole. Sew …
Identifying Vintage Sewing Machines - Threads
Dec 5, 2012 · Referring back to your vintage Singer, you answer a series of yes/no questions about your machine’s features. Based on your answers, the online form jumps you to more identification questions, until eventually you arrive at one or more possible models. Using this identification form, I narrowed my Singer’s model down to 27/28 or 127/128.
Top Sewing Machine Features to Look For - Threads
Apr 7, 2015 · In addition, for ultra-portability I own a 1951 Singer Featherweight, and for leather, canvas & other very heavy sewing a 1951 Singer 201. For my daughters, I chose vintage Singers as well. These babies are very basic, but have perfect straight stitches, run forever, and are fun to …
No-Fail Buttonholes with Vintage Buttonhole Attachments
Sep 27, 2019 · No-Fail Buttonholes with Vintage Buttonhole Attachments. Made for straight-stitch or zigzag mechanical sewing machines, these devices produce consistent results. By Peter Lappin, Threads digital ambassador 2018–2021. If you’ve ever struggled with stitching machine-made buttonholes, this post is for you. In the era of less mechanically ...
This IS Your Grandmother's Sewing Machine - Threads
May 12, 2011 · This New England Style Patented Sewing machine (circa 1870s-1880s) is a hand-cranked sewing machine with gear wheel. The most notable thing about this machine type that it has a walking presser foot to move the fabric from above, instead of feed dogs below the fabric. This sewing machine is in The Royal Alberta Museum's collection, and ...
What sewing machine are you using? - Threads
Feb 25, 2020 · 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.