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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on July 9, 2009, 6:36 am
Singer Featherweight 100. It's about 8 years old, not much used.
It's TINY - and slightly pink! Very little girly: white machine with
pink panel on the front.
Straight stitch*
Variable zigzag
3 step zigzag
Blind hem stitch
Buttonholes by the 'turn the fabric round' method - as yet untested.
2 screwdrivers
Zip and blind hem feet
Fairly useless little cleaning brush
No light
15w motor! Dammit, I have machines with 15w LIGHTBULBS!
It's dinky.
It's LIGHT!
It's rather crude inside (the bobbin winder didn't, so we hauled out the
screwdrivers and took the front off, took that to bits and lubricated
it). For such a cheaply made machine, it stitches remarkably well - or
it does now the tension has been adjusted and the excess thread removed
from various bits of its innards!).
It's not a patch on the Singer 117 Featherweight II I bought for my
mother and that Big Sis now has, but it is a cute machine, and will do
fine for the kids in school to play with. I managed to make a bag with
Vilene sew-in interfacing to stiffen it (a mini carrier bag, copied from
a paper one for a customer), so I know it will cope with that. I
wouldn't use it for making curtains, which is why I gave Marie a Bernina
707 as a swapsie. This is not so daft as it sounds, because, as you may
recall, I was given this handful of prehistoric Berninas to re-home.
It's actually more solid than it looks: though the front is plastic, the
back half of the case is metal, and forms the chassis to which
everything is screwed. The foot control is tiddly, and best used bare
foot, with a single big to to press it. It does have quite a good speed
regulator, which is a plus for teaching, though even the top speed is
slow by comparison with all my other machines.
Oh. And it is NOISY! *Easily* the noisiest sewing machine I own!
Not quite a toy sewing machine, but not far off! OK for a pre-teen as a
starter. You could certainly make cotton shirts without stiff collars,
light weight skirts, bags, and piece patchwork with it, though I would
hesitate to quilt with it...
*This is off-set to the left, and the zigzags increase by swinging wider
to the right each time. Slightly disconcerting...
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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