deltadawn

Lovely.

kathy

okay, Darren, show us your muscles! :shock:
I think you should reweigh your machine ;) LOL

Mary M

That is one good looking machine! Do yo think that is the original paint? You should have lots of fun sewing on that baby.

Central Ohio Quilter

That is such a pretty sewing machine! It is lucky to have such a loving new owner!

wesing

Thanks everyone for the replies - I love this color and that is one reason that I passed up so many others that I saw on ebay and CL. It may not weight exactly 4,728 pounds, but it has to be close. The poor mailman nearly got a hernia trying to deliver it.

We haven't named it yet - we'll have to think of a really good 50's name like Betty Lou or something. My wife suggested Oda Mae - not sure if that's her name or not. I will entertain suggestions if anyone has any ideas. We also are thinking up names for the 3 Pfaffs. One of them really is from Germany, so it may be a Gretchen. I'll have to check the "made in" tags on the other two.

Cindy - I think this machine is capable of dropping the feed dogs, so it is able to do FMQ.

I still don't have any info on this machine. I sure wish someone knew something. I joined Needlebar, but haven't found anything there yet. For now I'll just have to enjoy the color and see how she works on my next project.

Thanks all.

Darren

thepolyparrot

The vertical bobbin really helps when you're free-motion quilting - it's more amenable to stitching in all directions and to frequent changes of direction than a horizontal bobbin.

It likely has droppable feed dogs, but if not, it's no big deal - you just set your stitch length to "0" or cover the feed dogs with a piece of cardstock taped in place, but that's not really necessary. You can do FMQ even with the feed running - it just gives you some extra friction to deal with. :)

I just quilted most of a queen sized quilt with the feed dogs up and running. The only thing that alerted me was that they chewed up the Sew Slip mat and the thread kept hanging on one of the ragged edges. I finally removed the quilt and saw the damage to the mat.

This machine is my favorite FMQ machine - it's heavy as a truck and being installed in a heavy cabinet, it's very smooth. It sews beautifully and there's a lot more open space under the arm than on any of my modern machines.

sewTinker

hmmm... from the 50's? how about, "Lucy?" :-)

missgigglewings

Wow!! She is beautiful Wesing!

BrendaK

She is a beauty. Congratulations. Just for the heck of it can you weight it and let us know? BrendaK

Ginny4jah

That is really a beautiful machine!!