About a month ago, Robert and I were visiting family during our Spring break. His father and stepmother live just a few blocks from a street with several really awesome thrift and consignment shops. I needed new-to-me jeans, so I walked over one morning to see what I could find. I came home with not just the perfect jeans (long enough, not tight in the thighs, and with a waistband that doesn't gap in the back - the waistband facing is elastic!), but also two bread baking pans and a 1949 electric Singer 66 sewing machine!
The sewing machine was $85 and in good condition, with a new power cord. It sews really smoothly. It's my new everyday machine, and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's a table model - its undersides are exposed, so you can't put it anywhere else and expect it to sew (it came with the table).
I love that it has a really big harp space - it feels really luxuriously spacious compared to my old little Brother machine. It has a low straight shank, so the darning foot from my Brother fits on it, and I've already done some FMQ on it. It's a straight stitch only machine, although it does have a backstitch (apparently it was one of the first Singers to have a backstitch). I'm hoping I can get a zig-zagger and a buttonholer for it.
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