Featherweight Curious?
07-15-2014, 07:56 AM
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Outer Space
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I have 2, but I have 7, 301's. The 301 is a better machine IMHO and doesn't weigh much more and has feed dog drop and a more powerful motor for FMQing. I guess the cuteness factor is always going to be there, but I'm over that. LOL.
07-15-2014, 10:13 AM
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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When I first joined my guild seems everyone had a FW for workshops and classes. I had to get one too. I got the whitish one. Hearing a dozen or more FWs sewing at one time is something to hear. I love my little FW. I also have a Singer 301, FW's mother. It's fantastic for fmqing. I'm learning how to use it for free motion embroidery. The tension is perfect.
07-15-2014, 11:08 AM
#16
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North-Central Indiana
Posts: 4,909
I love anything vintage so that's one thing. I don't use my FW though. It just sits there and looks cute. For some reason, even though I had it serviced and greased and lubed it has become very loud so I just quit using it rather than trying to figure out why.
07-15-2014, 11:16 AM
#17
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Olympia, WA
Posts: 170
As a beginner to sewing and quilting, there is something about the Featherweight that makes it less intimidating than other machines. The tiny cuteness and the knowledge that I would have to work very hard to find a way to damage it, and then could probably fix it myself, make it easier to start sewing. Though I must say that as a beginner both in sewing and fixing up vintage machines, I'd never have bought one if I hadn't gotten very lucky in a big antiques mall and found one that had been poorly home-serviced (there was a screw put in backwards in the bobbin area that made it unusable, but was easily fixed) and marked down to a price I'd pay.
It does make lovely stitches.
It does make lovely stitches.
07-15-2014, 11:28 AM
#18
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Tennessee, UC area
Posts: 1,582
And that beautiful sound that they make is like music to my ears. I can't stand the grinding clunking sound my friend's machines make when we get together for a craft day. There's nothing like a FW, in my opinion. They are so reliable.... I've never had a breakdown with any of mine.... and I have 5. I don't need 5 but when I see one at a decent price, I can't resist.
07-17-2014, 03:12 AM
#20
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Glenmoore, PA
Posts: 7,941
I don't have a FW and since I don't take any classes or go anywhere to sew, have no need for one. But I have several old Singers that I love. I have a 1931 Singer that has a 9 1/2" throat, almost as big as my HV Vikings. I love the straight stitching of the old Singers. Three of my old Singers have been given to me by being picked up at the side of the road or people just didn't want them any more. Free is wonderful!
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