Sunday, January 13, 2008
wish I could sing today
We've had this lovely piece of machinery hiding in its table since we got it last spring. Since then, that table has been covered in stuff. (amazingly, not my stuff; my husband bravely claimed the tabletop before I could cover it in yarn!)
I finally had a chance to open it up and play around this weekend! Turns out, it is a Singer Featherweight, and is 60 years old this year! She hails from Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1948.
Today involved a lot of cotton swabs and trying to figure out what to oil (all moving parts?) Then plugging it in and turning it on! It goes!
But not far. After trying to get the thread where it needed to be, and lots of online consulting, I need different bobbins, and possibly a bobbin case, though I can't see any such thing in any drawings I have seen.
Apparently this is a great machine, judging by what is online about it. It doesn't have the fancy pants 100-stitch options, but who uses those anyhow?
I finally had a chance to open it up and play around this weekend! Turns out, it is a Singer Featherweight, and is 60 years old this year! She hails from Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1948.
Today involved a lot of cotton swabs and trying to figure out what to oil (all moving parts?) Then plugging it in and turning it on! It goes!
But not far. After trying to get the thread where it needed to be, and lots of online consulting, I need different bobbins, and possibly a bobbin case, though I can't see any such thing in any drawings I have seen.
Apparently this is a great machine, judging by what is online about it. It doesn't have the fancy pants 100-stitch options, but who uses those anyhow?
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So cool! I inherited a similar tabletop machine and haven't taken the time to do the hard work you did. I know very little about sewing, too. How did you figure out what you've got and how to fix it up?
the Singer website has a lot of information - http://www.singerco.com/support/model_number.html
If you have a serial number, this lists more about models - http://www.singerco.com/support/serial_2letter.html
Then it is all about googling - I found some scans of parts of the instruction manuals - enough to know that I was doing it right but it wasn't working (not enough to know that I have a too-tall bobbin!)
If you have a serial number, this lists more about models - http://www.singerco.com/support/serial_2letter.html
Then it is all about googling - I found some scans of parts of the instruction manuals - enough to know that I was doing it right but it wasn't working (not enough to know that I have a too-tall bobbin!)
Oh how cool! I'm still befuddled by my machine, so I'm no help but wow! It looks a bit like the machine my grandmother has that she's had "since Guam." (i.e. a long time)
Can I cry? I almost had one of these and someone outbid me by over $100!!!
The quilt shop up in Frederick might be able to help you. Cindy used to have in the shop.
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The quilt shop up in Frederick might be able to help you. Cindy used to have in the shop.
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