Comments on: Singer Featherweight 221 http://kayray.org/2019/01/25/singer-featherweight-221/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:42:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: ceastman http://kayray.org/2019/01/25/singer-featherweight-221/#comment-154732 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 05:42:23 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=4613#comment-154732 OMG! My first sewing machine was my mom-in-law’s machine (which had been her mother’s) which was THAT SAME MACHINE. She didn’t have the buttonhole attachment though.

I’m glad you’re enjoying using it! I eventually decided I really wanted a machine that could do a zigzag stitch and upgraded to a Babylock Esante, which does both embroidery and regular sewing, and I continue to have a blast with it, several years after purchase.

I love the various things you’re making!!!

]]> By: Suzan http://kayray.org/2019/01/25/singer-featherweight-221/#comment-154590 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:47:40 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=4613#comment-154590 Phenomenal, I have no other words. I love you.

]]> By: Gillian http://kayray.org/2019/01/25/singer-featherweight-221/#comment-154522 Sun, 27 Jan 2019 17:46:52 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=4613#comment-154522 s pre-war Singer. At some point a motor and foot pedal had been added to what was originally a hand-turned machine. It was even more basic than your model - straight stitch, forward only. Not even a reverse, let alone zig-zag. But what it lacked in stitch variety, it made up for with mechanical ingenuity. I never plucked up the courage to use the terrifyingly complicated button-hole maker. But I did have fun with the foot that automatically sewed pin-tucks. And the one that did very neat hemming. I have to say though that my nice modern machine is much easier to use, even if I only ever use a fraction of its built in fancy stitches!]]> That takes me back! My very first sewing machine was my Great Aunt’s pre-war Singer. At some point a motor and foot pedal had been added to what was originally a hand-turned machine. It was even more basic than your model – straight stitch, forward only. Not even a reverse, let alone zig-zag. But what it lacked in stitch variety, it made up for with mechanical ingenuity. I never plucked up the courage to use the terrifyingly complicated button-hole maker. But I did have fun with the foot that automatically sewed pin-tucks. And the one that did very neat hemming. I have to say though that my nice modern machine is much easier to use, even if I only ever use a fraction of its built in fancy stitches!

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