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Those smiles make it a pleasure to bring these machines to class. One of the gals there said she’d used one growing up, and that it brought back memories. I took Archie to class the following Monday, and sewed on him there. Meet Archie.Īnother few hours of cleaning, oiling adjusting and he looks practically new. I almost passed it up too, until I saw what was in the drawer. One day, perusing the Value Village at the far end of town, I ran into the 403A. I’d begun perusing the thrift shops looking for the Singer Sewing Reference Library books. I was still haunting the antique shops, and now I had another source for machines. I knew I had a problem, but I couldn’t seem to help it. Moose – 1936 Model 15-91 – That’s the ratty case behind him. I used the tutorial I found here at the Vintage Singer Sewing Machine Blog A real life saver, and timely, because he posted all of this scant weeks before I needed it. The motor and light needing to be rewired all the way to the armature, well let’s just call that a learning experience.
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The carry case being full of duct tape and generally rough condition, a shame, but surmountable. I found the next one at the Strathcona Antique Mall while looking for oil cans for the featherweights. I’m fairly sure there’s going to be an intervention soon. When you can justify why just one more would be OK if…. See, this is where it’s best to recognise the problem. If the Sewing machine repair guy will let his wife sew on it, it has to be good, right? So if I ran into one of those, I guess that would be a no-brainer, too.
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Oh! And Ron, the sewing machine repair guy said the 400 series were some of the best that Singer ever made. I’d heard they were pretty tough, and good solid machines, … and you can drop the feed dogs on them, so you can embroider freehand…. Unless, of course, I found a nice Model 15.
After all, who needs that many sewing machines? including the serger, that makes 5 now. Still smarting from that purchase, I thought I’d lay off for a bit. It looks like my featherweight herd is growing. I had bought her, because I wanted to repaint her, but I couldn’t justify it, because she wasn’t in as bad shape as we had initially thought.
Imagine my shock when the cup rings went away! Midge – 1950 Featherweight 221 I took after the bed a little to see what I was dealing with. When we got her home, I spent a couple of hours cleaning, oiling and adjusting her. Apparently, the featherweights like to congregate in herds. 🙂 She’s not the first person I’ve heard that from. Then she blurted, “I have three of them”. I talked to one lady, she said she loved the featherweights. As I was looking her over, other people were as well. She was a little sluggish, but her belt felt a little tight. This may be the one! I asked him if I could test her out to make sure she sewed OK. My eyes popped out of my head, and Ryan and I looked at each other.
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Her paint looked rough, and there were cup rings on her extension bed!! I was taking a peek to see if the bobbin case was in the machine, and trying to sneak a peek at her serial number to get an idea of her age, when the seller mentioned the price. While I was taking a peek at this particular FW, I noted that she had the more interesting front plate, and the older style box. You just don’t want to tear down one of those little cuties if there’s nothing wrong with them, especially at the price that they go for. You see, Ryan and I had been talking about how neat it would be to find a 221 in rough shape: bad decals, rough paint, etc but with good bones, that we could repaint. Not ebay prices mind you, but still higher than I wanted to pay. We’d seen a few featherweights at the show, all at average prices. There were lots of interesting things at the show, but it was about 2/3s of the way through all of the booths that I spotted her. Going in, I recall muttering to Ryan that if we were going to pay that much for admission and parking, that I was going to have to spend a lot of money to make it worth it. Fast forward now to the Wild Rose Antique Show 2012.
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