The Vintage Singer Featherweight: What’s All the Hype? The Featherweight uses the same low-shank feet and accessories as full-size Singer sewing machines A beautiful straight stitch is one of the Featherweight’s strongest selling points Due to the mechanical simplicity and high-quality construction and materials, Featherweights are easy to maintain at home
Singer Featherweight C240 offers Both Style and Substance 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 Before there were zigzag machines, home sewing machines were solely straight-stitch These easy-to-clean, easy-to-maintain machines did one thing and did it well—so well, in fact, that many garment sewers (myself included) prefer sewing with them today The greatest strength of these machines is their precision
What sewing machine are you using? - Threads My biggest regrets regarding sewing machines: 1) Trading in my mother's Featherweight, and 2) That I didn't buy a restored Bernina treadle in a gorgeous oak cabinet I saw for sale about ten years ago Try them out, take your time, buy the best quality you can
How old is you machine - Threads And Featherweight bobbins not much more expensive than the class 15 For storage, I have a 4 drawer dresser in my sewing room The top drawer holds the thread and bobbins The thread is stored in shoe box lids, sorted by color The bobbins are kept with the same color thread, in bobbins storage trays
Vintage sewing machines - Threads It's not ALL featherweight machines I quote from their homepage, "Featherweight Fanatics is a mailing list devoted to Singer Featherweights and other older machines All Fanatics are welcome to join For a free one month trial just send an e-mail request with the subject subscribe or unsubscribe to [email protected] "
Were you sewing in 1968??? - Threads I must've looked like a sofa! But it was what there was in the low-cost Chubbies department! (Yikes!)My Mom and Grandma were still doing most of the sewing for me in 1968, but I was learning! My sister still has Mom's Featherweight, and I still use Grandma's treadle machine Time-travel is such a 'trip'! Kharmin ThreadKoe | Jan 17, 2009 02:24pm